Charlie Barshaw interviewed me about my kids’ books for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators of Michigan. The interview appears today in The Mitten at https://scbwimithemitten.blogspot.com/2025/09/writer-spotlight-janet-ruth-heller.html Thank you to Charlie and the SCBWI-MI! #picturebook #middlegradebook #bullyingprevention #self-esteem #solarsystem #siblingrivalry Photo of Janet Ruth Heller by Darren Goodman
My article “What Is Midwestern about the Poetry of Lisel Mueller?” appears in Midwestern Miscellany 53.1 (Spring 2025) on pages 1-10. This is a special issue devoted to the work of Lisel Mueller, whose book Alive Together won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1997. The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature publishes Midwestern Miscellany. Linda Nemec Foster edited this issue. https://ssml.org/ #poetry #midwesternliterature #liselmueller #naturepoetry #societyforthestudyofmidwesternliterature Photo of Lisel Mueller