Kathleen Mavournin

Kathleen has performed at Storytelling Festivals, Tellabrations, and Renaissance Fairs around the southern Appalachian region. She belongs to the Smoky Mountain Storytellers Association, the Tennessee Storytelling Association, the National Storytelling Network, the Healing Story Alliance, and the Guild of Sacred Storytellers. She tells stories to school children, youth groups, women's groups, in retirement and assisted living centers, and to her grandchildren.

Kathleen's interest in storytelling goes back to her childhood. She has learned her craft through practice and performance, through detailed observation of master storytellers, and from coaching, workshops, and intensive seminars by superb tellers. Her repertoire includes rarely heard stories from distant countries as well as familiar European fairytales and Appalachian, Native American, Hasidic, and Celtic stories. She leads workshops on telling life stories, creating fairytales from personal experiences, and goddess mythology. She teaches storytelling to children and also teaches teachers how to teach storytelling to children.