travel – Janet Ruth Heller

Article about traveling with a baby in Italy mentions my award-winning picture book about bullying How the Moon Regained Her Shape

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:November 27, 2022
Post category:Book Reviews Books Bullying Children's Literature Creative Writing Literature Picture Book Travel

An article by Kat Fleischman about traveling with a baby in Italy mentions my award-winning fiction picture book about bullying How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 6th edition 2018). Here is the link: https://gothamology.com/travel/florence-during-the-holiday-season-as-a-winter-wonderland/ #picturebook #bullying #childrensbooks #travel Best wishes for the holiday season!

Essay about “A Visit to Isle Royale”

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:November 20, 2020
Post category:Autobiography Memoir Nature Nonfiction Travel

The Toho Journal, which is based in Philadelphia, has just published my short essay "A Visit to Isle Royale" online. This essay is about a trip that my husband and I took in the 1990s to Isle Royale, which is in Lake Superior off the coast of Michigan. The link to my essay is https://www.tohopub.com/tjo/a-visit-to-isle-royale Lori McElrath-Eslick's beautiful cover for my poetry book Traffic Stop

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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.