Mary Ann Kratzer Born:7/3/35 Married: 1955 Children: 4 Grandchildren: 12 3 great grand children Education: Allentown High School - Allentown, PA Graduated 1953 University of Cincinnati - Cincinnati, OH 1975 Edgecliff College - Cincinnati, OH 1976 - 1977 Otterbein College - Cincinnati, OH 1978 Columbus College of Art and Design - Columbus, OH 1978 -1980 Moorpark College - Moorpark, CA 1982 -1983 Institute of Children's Literature - Redding, Ct 1990 - 1994 In 1994, I completed a graduate course study in writing children's books at the Institute of Children's Literature. I enjoy writing children's stories and also illustrating them. My poem, "Snow" was published in a volume of The National Library of Congress, which received an Editors Choice Award. I was a volunteer art instructor at Lehigh County Prison in PA for four years and put together an art exhibit of the inmates' work at the County Government Offices. I was a volunteer art instructor at Lehigh County Prison in PA for four years and put together an art exhibit of the inmates' work at the County Government Offices. Not only do I like to write children's story books, I am an artist. I draw animals and pictures of people. I draw and paint fun pictures, contemporary, story book characters, traditional, and anything that I can think of. I just like to paint or draw all kinds of pictures.
