Patricia Hruby Powell Patricia Hruby Powell 2103 Georgetown Circle Champaign, IL 61821 phpowell@talesforallages.com www.talesforallages.com storyteller/dancer/author

Periodical Publications:

• "Memoirs of a Matchmaker" (fiction), New Stone Circle, Summer 1996
• "Star Story" (creative non-fiction), Storytelling Magazine, July 1996
• "Snowdrop" (creative non-fiction), Adventures in Storytelling, July 1996
• "Hans & Gret" and "Bela & Beastly" (creative non-fiction), Storytelling World, Winter/Spring 1996
• "Rabbit" (creative non-fiction), Spider

Book Publications:

• Zinnia: How the Corn Was Saved
  Salina Bookshelf (2003)
• Blossom Tales: Flower Stories of Many Folk
  Moon Mountain Publishing (2002)
• NEW: Frog Brings Rain
  Salina Bookshelf in late 2005

Forthcoming Publications:

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• Awards for fiction and storytelling, Creative Arts Institute
• Awards for  choreography, National Endowment for the Arts and Illinois Arts Council

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

Recent Workshops:

Present Employment:

• Storyteller, writer, illustrator, and dancer

Preferred Audience:

Willing to travel:

• "Patricia toured internationally with her dance company, One Plus One. Now she travels to collect stories and for adventures from which she writes stories. Recently she traveled to the Andes Mountains in South America where she was told an Otavaleña story that will appear in her Native South American Stories: From the Andes to the Rainforest."