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Jamie Lynn Heller [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Shawnee Mission, KS
Kansas US
Email: 
jamielynnheller@gmail.com
Bio: 

Jamie Lynn Heller uses poetry as her caffeine (and she needs a lot to keep up with her life of school counseling, teaching, parenting, wife-ing, daughtering, aunting, neighboring, writing, and other -ings).  Her book Buried in the Suburbs was published in 2018 (Woodley Press) and received the 2019 Kansas Notable Book Award.  Her chapbook Domesticated : Poetry From Around the House was published in 2015 (Finishing Line Press). She has 90+ poems published in literary journals and magazines (for a complete list of publications see jamielynnheller.blogspot.com).

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Raised in: 
Kansas City
Website: 
https://jamielynnheller.blogspot.com/ [2]
Prizes won: 

Kansas Noteable Book of the Year 2019. Whispering Prairie Press Writing Contest Honorable Mention Poetry 2012.  Honorable Mention, Kansas Voices Contest 2011 and 2017.  Pushcart Prize Nominee:  Little Balkans Review 2014. 805 Lit +Art Journal 2016 Best of the Net Nominee.  Buried in the Suburbs (2018) recevied 2019 Kansas Noteable Book Award.

Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
At Risk Youth
Naturalists/Environmentalists
Teachers
Teenagers

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/jamie_lynn_heller [2] https://jamielynnheller.blogspot.com/