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Janet Ruth Heller Speaks about “Keys to Reading & Analyzing Nonfiction” for the Michigan Reading Association Conference on March 9, 2019, in Grand Rapids MI

Janet Ruth Heller, Ph.D. will be speaking about “Keys to Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction” for the Michigan Reading Association Conference at the DeVos Place Convention Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday, March 9, 2019.  She will do her presentation twice on March 9: 1) from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. in River Overlook B and 2) from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Gallery Overlook A.  Janet has published six books: an award-winning fiction picture book for children about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 4th edition 2016); a chapter book for children about sibling rivalry, The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015, 2016); three poetry books for adults—Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012), and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011; and the scholarly nonfiction book Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama (University of Missouri Press, 1990).  Location:  DeVos Place / 303 Monroe Ave NW / Grand Rapids MI 49503.  For more information, please e-mail the Michigan Reading Association at mra@michiganreading.org , phone the MRA at 800-672-7323, or see the MRA website at https://www.michiganreading.org


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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).