Author Archive: Janet Ruth Heller

I am the past president of the Michigan College English Association. I have a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. I have published four poetry books: Nature's Olympics (Wipf and Stock, 2021), Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). My scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, was published in 1990 by the University of Missouri Press. My fiction picture book about bullying for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edn. 2022), has won four national awards. My play The Cell Phone won fourth place in a national contest and was performed twice at the Fenton Village Players One-Act Play Festival on June 24-25, 2011 in Fenton, Michigan. Triton College produced another play, Pledging, as part of its Tritonysia Play Festival in May 2017. Choeofpleirn Press published Pledging in Rushing Through the Dark (2022).

Article about the effect of the coronavirus on businesses includes Janet Ruth Heller’s experiences as a writer

An article about the effect of the coronavirus on various businesses includes my experiences as a writer whose speaking engagements at conferences and elsewhere have been cancelled.  This article is now published on the website of CEOblognation.  My paragraph is…
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A Review of Sanditon by Jane Austen as Revised by Andrew Davies on PBS’s Masterpiece

Jane Austen died in 1817 before she could finish her novel The Brothers, later called Sanditon. In January and February, 2020, PBS’s Masterpiece aired Andrew Davies’ 2018 adaptation of Sanditon. This production features superb acting by Rose Williams as Charlotte…
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Three Articles Analyze Exodus Poems by Janet Ruth Heller

Prof. Anat Koplowitz-Breier has written three scholarly articles that include analysis of my poems in Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014) about women in the Bible. She discusses my poems “Leah,” “Lot’s Wife,” and “Yiftach’s Daughter.” Her article “Modernizing Leah” discusses many…
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