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College Professor Becomes Full-Time Writer

Janet Ruth Heller is interviewed about her writing career in the article “College Professor Becomes Full-Time Writer.” This interview was posted on January 10, 2018 on the website SimpleK12, which focuses on providing information for teachers.

Here is one paragraph from the interview:

Tell us a little about your work.

I do a lot of public speaking in libraries, schools, bookstores, and at conferences. I do poetry readings, and I read my essays and published fiction for children. I speak about many books and DVDs that help children and families deal with bullying. I do creative writing workshops for both children and adults. Usually, I write at home. I also get great ideas while I’m traveling and often write new work.

Here is the link to this article: https://www.simplek12.com/extra-teacher-income/college-professor-becomes-full-time-writer/

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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).