Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
Dear Friends, Old Northwest Review published two of my poems, “Inheritance (For Oma)” and “Policing My Apartment,” in its fall 2015 issue. This journal focuses on literature from the Midwest. I read the first poem at my grandmother’s funeral in…
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Monday, June 1, 2015—Janet Ruth Heller will be discussing “Dramatic Monologues in Midwestern Poetry,” reading her poetry, and autographing her books from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at Writing the Midwest, the annual conference of the Society for the Study of…
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On April 14, 2015, I did the following interview with Anna Levine about my books, especially my poetry book Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014).