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Megan Hicks survived the Baby Boom with her sense of humor in good working order. Born in Texas to a couple of Oklahomans, she grew up in Wyoming and California and now makes her home in Virginia . Her fairy tales, both intact and fractured, delight children, inner children, imaginary friends and grownups -- all at the same time. She brings the Civil War, World War II, and personal stories to life with characters that live and breathe long after the telling ends. Her ghost stories leave middle and high school audiences appropriately wide-eyed and horrified. Storytelling has taken her from sea to shining sea, from Australia to Argentina , from juvenile detention centers to the FBI Academy. |
Jay Stailey |
Jay Stailey has been hanging around the storytelling community for over a quarter of a century. He is a two-time winner of the Greater Houston Area Liars’ Contest, was twice a featured teller at the George West Storyfest, a teller-in-residence at the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and much more. In March of this year, he appeared at the Tejas Storytelling Festival and was one of 25 tellers featured at the 25th Anniversary Tejas Festival in 2010. Jay is the author of two collections of stories, Short Tales, Tall Tales and Tales of Medium Stature and Think Rather of Zebra: Dealing With Aspects of Poverty through Story. A retired school principal, Jay currently stays busy working with the School Improvement Resource Center in Austin while freelancing as a leadership coach. His most recent adventure was storytelling for educators and children in Ethiopia as an ambassador for Ethiopia Reads. |
Mary Grace Ketner |
Whether surrounded by folks on haybales at George West, kids on carpet samples in the library, college students at a keynote, or families in the cushioned seats of San Antonio’s Majestic Theatre, Mary Grace Ketner brings listeners an elegant gift of story. Stirred by passion and a deep love of tale-tellling, long silent traditional oral narrative stirs back to life in her gentle hands. Experience whimsy, wit, insight, “ROFL” or universal human values with a Texas drawl, all spun into a fantasy before your very ears. As one listener commented, “I believe that we opened ourselves up to create a magic space. What happened in that magic space? Can’t say exactly, but I know the climate was ripe for transformation.” An invitation to the 2011 Storyfest from Mary Grace:
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