Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
Yona Zeldis McDonough’s The Doll Shop Downstairs (New York: Puffin Books/Penguin, 2009). 120 pages. In the middle-grade historical fiction chapter book The Doll Shop Downstairs, we meet the Breittlemann family of New York City. When World War I breaks out,…
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My poem “Wild Turkeys in Mississippi, May 16, 1863″ has won first prize in the literary journal Crucible‘s poetry contest. This poem is about visiting the battlefield of Champion Hill in Mississippi with my husband Michael, where we saw many…
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Sunday, December 14, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.—Janet Heller autographed her five books at the Chanukah Bazaar at the Congregation of Moses in Kalamazoo, Michigan.