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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The Lothlorien Poetry Journal edited by Strider Marcus Jones just published ten of my tanka poems. The link is https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2024/11/ten-tanka-poems-by-janet-ruth-heller.html Tanka resemble haiku, but tanka are five lines long, so there is more room to develop ideas. I have been…
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My poem “Communication” just got published in Gargoyle Magazine‘s online issue #9. I wrote this poem in 1972 and am glad to have found an editor who likes it: Richard Peabody. I am grateful to the people in my writing…
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Janet Ruth Heller will speak about and autograph her books for children at the Michigan Association of School Librarians conference in Bay City, Michigan on Friday, October 25, 2024 at the DoubleTree Hotel from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. She…
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