I write

I write to breathe, to try and stop time from tripping on down the trail and around the bend without me, to give the descriptions and wandering wonderings in my head a place to curl up for a while and just be.



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 below).

Friday, September 30, 2016

Well, this is a fun email to receive!

Hi Jamie!

We submitted your poem "Seashell" to the Best of the Net Anthology, and are crossing our fingers for you! They will email us when the winners and finalists are announced later this year. We hope you brag to everyone you know about being nominated, and if you'd like to brag on social media, please share our posts on Facebook and Twitter. Thank you again for being a part of 805. 

805 Lit + Art Editorial Team