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Janet Ruth Heller will speak about her books for children at the MASL conference in Bay City, Michigan on Friday, October 25, 2024

Janet Ruth Heller will speak about and autograph her books for children at the Michigan Association of School Librarians conference in Bay City, Michigan on Friday, October 25, 2024 at the DoubleTree Hotel from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.  She will discuss her school visits and creative writing workshops with librarians from different Michigan schools.  She will sign copies of her award-winning fiction picture book about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 7th edition 2022) and The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015, 2016), a middle-grade fiction chapter book about sibling rivalry.  Janet’s website is https://www.janetruthheller.com/

Other Michigan authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults who will speak at this event are Amy Dua, Heather Shumaker, Deb Pilutti, Mimi Olson, Michele Beresford, Matt Faulkner, Melanie Swiftney, Suja Sukumar, Naomi V. Dunsen-White, Kim Childress, and Suzanne Jacobs Lipshaw.  All these individuals are members of the Michigan chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

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Janet Ruth Heller speaking at the Kalamazoo Public Library; photo by Hedy Habra

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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).