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Dr. Janet Heller

Janet Ruth Heller teaches English and Women’s Studies courses at Western Michigan University. The University of Missouri Press published her scholarly book, Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama, in 1990. Her fiction picture book for children, How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Sylvan Dell, 2006) won a Book Sense Pick in 2006 and a Children’s Choices for 2007 selection. Janet is a founding mother of Primavera, a prize-winning women’s literary journal. Janet has published 150 poems in various journals and anthologies. She is currently President of the Michigan College English Association and a Past President of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature.

Sunday, March 15, 2009, Michigan Reading Association conference in the DeVos Place Convention Center and the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan--Janet Heller autographs her award-winning children's book about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape, at the Author-Illustrator Breakfast from 8 to 9:30 a.m., speaks about "Using Stories and Nonfiction for Kids to Combat Bullying" from 12 noon to 12:45 p.m., and autographs books for the Made in Michigan Reception from 5 to 6 p.m.

May 27-28, 2009, the Independent Book Publishers Association's Publishing University in New York City--Janet Heller speaks on the panel "Expertizing for Greater Publicity."  She will discuss how she became an expert in bullying in connection with her award-winning children's book about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape.  
 
October 28-31, 2009, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Great Lakes  International Reading Association Regional Conference--Janet Heller autographs her award-winning children's book about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape, and speaks about "Using Stories and Nonfiction for Kids to Combat Bullying" and "Using Poems to Get Kids to Write."

Recent publications by Janet Heller:

Franchising the Disenfranchised: Improving the Lot of Visiting Faculty and Adjuncts, Gypsy Scholars, Migrant Teachers and the Global Academic Proletariat, ed. Rudolphus Teeuwen and Steffen Hantke ( Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2007): 79-85.

"Returning to Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin" (creative nonfiction), Midwestern Miscellany 35 (Spring/Fall 2007): 55-59.

Email: janet.heller@wmich.edu