About Joan Kremer
Professional Background:
- 25 years as instructional designer and business writer/consultant
- 5 years as editor of a regional daily newspaper
- 7 years as a stringer for a major-market daily newspaper
- 4 years as reporter, columnist, and editor for weekly newspaper
- Co-founder and editor of a well-reviewed regional photojournalism magazine focused on the environment
- Co-founder and editor of the web-based literary journal Cezanne's Carrot
- Author of two books of regional history
- Co-owner and operations manager for 9 years of a training consulting company with 20 employees
- Co-founder and vice president of Interactive Inc., a training company specializing in multimedia
- Business owner or independent consultant since 1982
Educational Background:
- Bachelor's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls (1974)
- Briefly attended University of Chicago Graduate School in English
- Completed numerous classroom-based and self-study programs in adult learning, instructional design principles and techniques, leadership, team-building, creativity, human potentional, and many other topics
- Completed numerous writing courses through organizations such as the University of Iowa (Summer Writing Festival), University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Loft Literary Center, and Writers.com and other online writing course providers
Honors & Awards:
- Finalist in the 1998 James Jones Fellowship for the Novel-in-Progress
- 2003 Wisconsin Writers Institute Poetry Contest, third-place
- Atlantic Monthly College Creative Writing Contest, certificate of merit in poetry
- Full-tuition merit scholarship to the University of Chicago's Graduate School
- Awards for newspaper writing
- Numerous other scholarship awards and nominations
Personal Background:
- Born, raised, and continue to live in the Upper Midwest of the United States
- Long-time student of metaphysical spirituality
- Mother to a son and a daughter, both in their twenties
- Caretaker and cleaner-up-after of three dogs, four cats, and a ferret — all "gifted" to me by the above-mentioned children
- Happily partnered for 15 years
You can reach me via email at: joan@joankremer.com
Quick links to . . .
Examples of websites I have designed and developed
Website for Interactive Inc., a full-service training company I co-own and operate
Professional writing services I offer
The latest information about my novel Saving Rainbows
A tribute to the cousin who opened the door to the storyteller's world
