Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
Janet Ruth Heller, Ph.D., is the past president of the Michigan College English Association and the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature. She has a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. She has taught…
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Recently, I published a poem and got interviewed by Ann Byle for Grand Rapids Magazine. Editor Kelly Moyer published my senryu “Quilting” in failed haiku 9, #108 (February 2025) on page 152. The link is https://failedhaiku.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/failedhaikuissue108-final-1.pdf The title of this…
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My article “Multiple Awakenings in Sherwood Anderson’s Story ‘An Awakening’” just appeared in MidAmerica, volume 51 (2024) on pages 43-53. I used to teach this story from the book Winesburg, Ohio to my undergraduate English composition and literature students at…
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My poem “Songs for Two Dancers” appears in the Macramé Literary Journal (Fall 2024): https://macramelit.com/articles/songs-for-two-dancers/ I wrote this piece in 1973 and revised it in 2024. The poem describes a program of modern dance that I attended when I was…
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