Carissa D KohutCarissa D. Kohut has a Bachelor of Education from Simon Fraser University, and has been teaching children for over twenty years. She started telling stories at an early age, usually horse stories featuring herself as the main character! When she becae a teacher she told stories to her students, often to classical music melodies. She has even used stories to help explain challenging learning concepts, such as Pythagorean theory and history, when she taught high school.

Carissa has always enjoyed children's literature. Story time was one of her most treasured times of the day when she taught young children. Carissa loves riding and caring for her horses and animals, as well as flower and vegetable gardening. She is passionate about music and singing, and thoroughly enjoys audiobooks.

Carissa lives in the small town of Ogema in sunny Southern Saskatchewan. Carissa is an Equine Assisted, Animal Assisted, Music and Art Therapy practitioner from her forty-acre home farm, and undertakes various farming operations like haying to feed her herd. She lives with her husband, daughter, two cats, one dog and five horses. Read More Read Less