On Saturday, June 24, 2017 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Kazoo Books is hosting a reception for the Oakwood Neighborhood Association’s annual Oakwood Neighborhood Reunion. Local writers attending this reunion and autographing their books for children and adults include Jaimy Gordon, Janet Heller, Kate Seifert, Laura Becklar, Jacquelyn Vincenta, and historian Keith Howard. (more…)
Mindy McGinnis interviewed me about my books and advice for writers for her website Writer Writer Pants on Fire. Here is the interview, which was posted on May 23, 2017. Janet Ruth Heller on Querying Publishers Today's guest for the SAT (Successful Author Talk) is Janet Ruth Heller. Janet is a poet, literary critic, college professor, essayist, playwright, and fiction writer. She is a past president of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, and is currently president of the Michigan College English Association. She has a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago, and has published three books of poetry: Exodus (WordTech Communications, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012), and Traffic Stop (Finishing Line Press, 2011). She is the founding mother and former editor of Primavera, a literary magazine. Primavera has won awards from Chicago Women in Publishing and the Illinois Arts Council and grants from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines and the National Endowment for the Arts. Primavera was among the first journals to…