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Article about Body-Shaming

 Janet Ruth Heller is quoted in the article “Body shaming can create lifelong problems, but who’s doing it may surprise you” by Lois M. Collins, published on April 22, 2018 on Deseret News. The link is https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900016552/body-shaming-can-create-lifelong-problems-but-whos-doing-it-may-surprise-you.html

Classmates bullied Janet when she was in elementary school because she was very thin and because she was a new student. She wrote the award-winning picture book How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 4th edition 2014) to help other children to cope with bullying and body-shaming.

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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).