Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi

LORRAINE HARTIN-GELARDI is a professional storyteller, teaching artist, and workshop leader with over fifty years of practice, and the author of Wisdom in the Telling: Finding Inspiration and Grace in Traditional Folktales and Myths Retold.

Hartin-Gelardi’s book won the 2008 Storytelling World Resource Award for Special Storytelling Resources. She is co-founder of Tall Tale/Short Story Productions and a member of the National Storytelling Association.

When she’s not writing, Hartin-Gelardi performs folktales, myths, literary tales, and tall tales for audiences of all ages in libraries, schools, churches, retirement homes, conferences, and festivals, and leads storytelling workshops for adults, teachers, and students. Much of her work centers on helping people find and tell their own stories.

Lorraine lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York State.

Lorraine Hartin-Gelardi’s books are published by SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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