Janet Ruth Heller is president of the Michigan College English Association and has taught literature, creative writing, linguistics, and women's studies. She wrote the poetry books Exodus, Folk Concert: Changing Times, and Traffic Stop and the scholarly book Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama. Fictive Press published Heller's middle-grade chapter book about sibling rivalry, The Passover Surprise. Her children's book about bullying, How the Moon Regained Her Shape, has won four national awards.
