Carolyn Mamchur is a professor at Simon Fraser University in BC and the award-winning author of psychology texts, articles, poetry and children’s books, including INSIGHTS, A TEACHER’S GUIDE TO COGNITIVE TYPE THEORY AND LEARNING STYLE, THE POPCORN TREE and IN THE GARDEN.  She has written ten feature film scripts and a half-hour drama for CBC. 

She is a popular guest speaker and presenter and has lectured and delivered a myriad of workshops in Europe, the United States and Canada including a Vancouver’s PRAXIS, Centre for Screenwriters.

She earned a doctorate at the University of Florida where she studied with the founders of CAPT, Centre for Application of Psychological Type and with southern writer, Harry Crews.  She did post doctorate work at the Jung Institute in Switzerland where she furthered her research and studies in the application of psychological type theory.

As a writer and educator, she is presently focusing her interest in psychology and creative writing, particularly screen writing and the use of the archetype in creating authentic characters.  She has developed workshops on this topic and is writing a book which should be complete 2004/05.  She consulted on the feature film script  of THE GILLIAN GUESS STORY which screened at the 2004 Vancouver International Film Festival.

She has recently from a trip to Moscow where she worked with experts in Vigotsky at the University for the Humanities, presenting her research and beginning work in setting up an exchange Master’s Program between Simon Fraser University and University of Moscow.  She is also working in Japan over the next two years, setting up programs for Japanese teachers and businessmen in how to think, write and speak in English. 

Her international work is balanced by her love of gardening and she is busy week ends with her daughter and two dogs planting a three acre botanical garden in Bow, Washington.  Her latest book. CRAZY FOR TREES, describing just how and why a woman in her fifties would find it irresistible to create a garden in the middle of a forest, is the subject of a series for television called THE DOLPHINS under consideration by Force Four Productions.