Moving Past Heartbreak in Relationships to Focus on a Successful Future

Chelsea Leigh Trescott interviewed me about moving past heartbreak in relationships to focus reviewing one’s goals and on improving one’s life.

Here is the first paragraph of this article.

“When I was in graduate school in English at the University of Wisconsin, I dated an older man and was sure that he would marry me. I wrote him many love poems. It was great to have an appreciative audience for my writing. After he ended the relationship suddenly because he found another woman, I kept writing poems to deal with my strong emotions of grief and anger. This got me into the habit of doing creative writing frequently. I have published many of these poems in journals and anthologies and later in my own three books of poetry. Instead of finding a husband, I learned that being an author is my vocation.”

You can read the whole interview at the link below:

https://onmogul.com/stories/thank-you-heartbreak-spotlighting-creatives-12

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).