book fair – Janet Ruth Heller

Author Hop at the Portage District Library on Friday May 2, 2025 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:May 2, 2025
Post category:Book Fairs Books Janet's Speaking Events Literature

Come to the Portage District Library to meet local authors of children’s books and fiction, poetry, and nonfiction for adults. The writers can discuss their work and autograph their books for you. Authors include Andrew Mozina, Janet Ruth Heller, Hedy Habra, Elizabeth Rae Bullmer, Mark Love, Buffy Silverman, Christopher Tallon, Margaret DeRitter, Elaine M. Seaman, Marcel Fable Price, Kim Powers, Anne Stone, Maria Dong, Julia Richardson, Sharon Ustishen Bippus, Alex Ebenstein, Martin L. Shoemaker, and Nadia Famiano. The Portage District Library’s address is 300 Library Lane / Portage MI 49002 Light refreshments will be provided. For more information, please phone (269) 329-4544 or consult the website https://portage.libnet.info/events? Photo of Janet Ruth Heller by Darrin Goodman

Funky Ferndale Art Fair on Friday 23 September 2022 from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:September 2, 2022
Post category:Books

Janet Ruth Heller will join other Michigan authors and illustrators of books for children at the Funky Ferndale Art Fair on Friday, September 23, 2022 from 3 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Nine Mile Road West of Woodward. Use 200 West Nine Mile Rd., Ferndale, Michigan for GPS. Admission is free. The fair continues on Saturday, September 24 and Sunday, September 25, 2022. Janet will sign copies of her award-winning picture book story about bullying How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 6th edition 2018) and her middle-grade chapter book about sibling rivalry The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015 and 2016). Get great gifts for family members and friends! Here is the link for information about all of the authors at this fair. Click on the book cover to see more information about each person. https://www.funkyferndaleartfair.com/other-stuff #childrensbooks #bookfair #gifts #bullying #siblingrivalry Cover of How the Moon Regained Her Shape by Janet Ruth Heller; artwork by Ben Hodson

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I love books by British writers P. D. James, Seamus Heaney, S. T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Judy Blume, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Jim Daniels, Mong-Lan, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Gail B. Griffin, Jerry Spinelli, Jane Yolen, Kathryn Erskine, Gary D. Schmidt, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marge Piercy, Grace Paley, Alicia Ostriker, Jaimy Gordon; South African writer Athol Fugard;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon; and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico García Lorca, Ruben Darío, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Dámaso Alonso.

I also love Japanese haiku, especially those by Matsuo Bashō.

My writing has been influenced by many other authors, including British writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon, and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Ruben Dario, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, and Damaso Alonso.