Andrea Torrey Balsara Balsara is an award-winning children's and young adult author/illustrator, motivational speaker, and energy medicine practitioner. Her passion is to inspire joy through storytelling and energy healing, helping young people and adults to walk “the Hero’s Journey” in real life. She writes and illustrates for young children under her full name, Andrea Torrey Balsara, and for young adults under A.T. Balsara.
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A member of the Baha'i Faith, Andrea is also a painter, an avid explorer of quantum physics, and a keen environmentalist. She advocates for the humane treatment of animals and regularly volunteers at a donkey sanctuary where she uses energy medicine to help previously neglected and abused animals regain their health and vitality and live their "happy ever after."
Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators and Performers
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
PEN Canada celebrates literature, defends freedom of expression and aids writers in peril.
The Canadian Children's Book Centre
The Writers' Union of Canada
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