Jamie Lynn Heller

Poet

Shawnee Mission, KS
Kansas US
Email: 
jamielynnheller@gmail.com
Website: 
jamielynnheller.blogspot.com/

Author's 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).

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
Blues City Poet (Flying Ketchup Press, 2019)
Book:
Buried in the Suburbs (Woodley Press, 2018)
Chapbook:
Domesticated (Finishing Line Press, 2015)
Journals:
805 Lit + Art
,
Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poems
,
Burningword Literary Journal
,
Flint Hills Review
,
Gargoyle Magazine
,
I-70 Review
,
Kudzu House Quarterly
,
Little Balkans Review
,
Main Street Rag
,
Mom Egg Review
,
MockingHeart Review
,
Mothers Always Write
,
Noctua Review
,
Paddock Review
,
Prairie Schooner
,
The Storyteller
,
Whistling Shade
,
Wilderness House Literary Review
,
Words Dance
,
Written River
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.

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More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, At Risk Youth, Naturalists/Environmentalists, Teachers, Teenagers
Fluent in: 
English
Raised in: 
Kansas City
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Last update: Oct 23, 2023