Born: 07/08/1949   Milwaukee , WI
Parents: William C. Heller, Jr., Joan P. Heller
Address(es):
Permanent :
2719 Pfitzer Avenue
Portage , MI 49024
USA
Contact Information:
Email : [email protected]
Website : http://www.janetruthheller.com/
Website : https://www.facebook.com/JanetRuthHellerBooks/

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	The Passover surprise	Fiction , Picture Book	Adult	Gabriola Island, British Columbia : Fictive Press	2015
	Exodus : poems	Poetry	Adult	Cincinnati : WordTech Editions	2014
	Folk Concert: Changing Times : poems	Poetry	Adult	Cochran, Georgia : Anaphora Literary Press	2012
	Traffic Stop : poems	Poetry	Adult	Georgetown, Ky. : Finishing Line Press	2011
	How the Moon Regained Her Shape	Fiction , Picture Book	Children	Mt. Pleasant, S.C. : Sylvan Dell Publishing	2006
	A Visit to Isle Royale - Radio broadcast by Station WUOM, Ann Arbor	Michigan , Travel	Adult	Michigan Public Radio	1999
	Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama	Non Fiction	Adult	Columbia : University of Missouri Press	1990
	Other works: - Recent prose works include theater, dance and music reviews in the Kalamazoo Gazette, book reviews in Library Journal, Literary criticism in Ninteenth-Century Prose, Edith Wharton Review, MidAmerica, Women's Studies, Twentieth Century literature, and the anthology Essays on Anthropology and Literature. Published literary criticism in Poetics, Language and Style, Literature and Psychology, The Eighteenth Century, Shakespeare Bulletin, The Library Quarterly, Theatre Journal, Concerning Poetry, College English, The Wildean, and Style. Scholarly article in the anthology Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat.		Adult
	Poetry works: - Recently published poems have appeared in Minnesota Review, Artful Dodge, and the anthologies Modern Poems on the Bible, Filtered Images: Women Remembering Their Grandmothers, Women's Spirituality, Women's Lives, Pandemonium or Life with Kids, Moon Days, and I Killed June Cleaver Others: published in Seeding the Snow, Sugar Mule, Michigan Reading Journal, Frogpond, Wisconsin People & Ideas, Bottle Rockets, Paper Wasp, Mayfly, Home Planet News, Ginyu, Berry Blue Haiku, Encore, The Heron’s Nest, and Skylark. Published poetry in The Writer, Anima, Modern Maturity, Light Year, Women, Mothers Today, Organic Gardening, Women's Glib: A Collection of Women’s Humor, Our Mothers' Daughters.	Poetry	Adult

What is the aim or goal of your writing: "In poetry, I want to communicate as simply and concisely as possible with a wide audience. I am very interested in psychology, nature, religion, and women's experiences. In literary criticism, I like wrestling with difficult intellectual problems and solving them to illuminate literature and language for others."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: Yes

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Name	Date
Traffic Stop: Semi-finalist in Finishing Line Press's competition for chapbooks.	2010
How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Sylvan Dell, 2006), received the following awards: Book Sense Pick in 2006, a Children’s Choices selection, 2007, a Benjamin Franklin Award, 2007, and a Gold Medal in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, 2007. In 2009, How the Moon Regained Her Shape was one of five finalists for the Patricia Gallagher Picture Book Award given by the Oregon Reading Association.	2006 -2009
Poem commissioned by Friends of Poetry for display in public libraries and television broadcast, 1990-1991	1990 -1991
Winner, Friends of Poetry Contest, Kalamazoo, 1989	1989
poem displayed on city buses.

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