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Janet Ruth Heller will speak & autograph her books for children at the conference of the Michigan Association for Media in Education at the Delta Hotel in Kalamazoo on Thursday, October 14, 2021

Janet Ruth Heller will speak and autograph her books for children at the conference of the Michigan Association for Media in Education at the Delta Hotel in Kalamazoo on Thursday, October 14 from 2:05 p.m. to 3:35 p.m.  She will discuss her school visits and creative writing workshops with media specialists 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; 6th edition 2018) and The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015, 2016), a middle-grade fiction chapter book for children.  

Heller’s website is https://www.janetruthheller.com/

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Cover of How the Moon Regained Her Shape by Janet Ruth Heller; artwork by Ben Hodson

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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).