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Janet Ruth Heller Conducts a Workshop and Presents a Panel at the Michigan Reading Association Conference on March 19-20, 2016, in Detroit

Janet Ruth Heller will be conducting a workshop and participating in a panel at the Michigan Reading Association Conference at Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan, March 19-20, 2016.  She will present a workshop about “Using Poems to Get Teenagers to Write” on Saturday, March 19 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Room 251 B.  She will be speaking about “Recent Multicultural Literature for Children” on a panel on Sunday March 20 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Room 336.  Janet will also be available to autograph her books for children: her award-winning fiction picture book about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; rpt. 2012) and her chapter book about sibling rivalry The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015). The Cobo Center is located at 1 Washington Blvd, Detroit, MI 48226.

front cover for Passover Surprise

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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).