Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama (University of Missouri Press, 1990) is a re-evaluation of British drama criticism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Heller demonstrates that the British romantics’ bias against the staging of Shakespearean tragedy is…
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Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011) contains some of Heller’s best poems written from the 1970s to 2009. Themes include being an assertive nontraditional woman, having close relationships, teaching college English and women’s studies, loving nature, traveling, being involved in…
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Janet Ruth Heller’s poetry book, Folk Concert: Changing Times, was published by Anaphora Literary Press (2012). Folk Concert contains Heller’s best poems written from the 1970s to 2011. Folk Concert concerns the journey of becoming a woman during difficult times….
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