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, November 30, 2018

KKFI Radio Interview

Here is the link to the recording of the interview:  http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/artspeak-radio-andres-rodriguez-jamie-heller-adam-finkelston-mason-kilpatrick/   
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Sunday, June 10, 2018

Buried in the Suburbs

Now available!

Published by Woodley Press.  Below is a link to the Amazon order page.

https://www.amazon.com/Buried-Suburbs-Jamie-Lynn-Heller/dp/0998700320/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1528659141&sr=8-1&keywords=buried+in+the+suburbs 
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Publications 2017-2018

Buried in the Suburbs
Full length collection
Woodley Press
May 2018 release

Paddock Review
An Entire Life
Oct 2017

 I-70 Review
Breath
September 2017

Kudzu House
Waiting for Rain
Winter 2017

Zingara Poetry Review
Inches
Online 9/13/2017
https://zingarapoet.net/ 

 Kansas Voices Contest
Honorable Mention
Butterfly Morning
May 2017


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Publications 2015-2016

Domesticated
Chapbook
Finishing Line Press
Dec 2015

 Whistling Shade
Civilized
Fall/Winter 2016

Written River
Adrift
Anchor Me
2016

Diversion Press
Innocence Is
Midwest Advice to Expecting Mothers
Toilet Paper Rolls

Words Dance - online Oct 20 2015
Behind Closed Doors
http://wordsdance.com 

805 Lit + Art Journal - Online Oct 2015
Seashell

Mothers Always Write - Online Oct 2015
Canoeing

Wilderness House Literary Review - Oct 1 2015 Online
A Stranger's Hands, Her Hands
Flour Sack Dresses
Hijacked Memories
It's Due
My Father's Sister
http://www.whlreview.com/ 

Flint Hills Review - Fall 2015
A Mouthful

The Mom Egg - April 2015
I Denied Her

Johnson County Public Library's Poetry Month  - April 2015
Within

Blueline - Summer 2015
Spring Breezes

When the Leaves Thin
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Publications 2013-2014

Burningword Literary Journal - April 2014
Online http://burningword.com
On a Chilled Wind
There is a Place
What Once Was
thawing

Iodine Poetry Journal - Fall 2014
Sewn
The Inevitability of Touch

I-70 Review
New to the Nursing Home
Sept 2014

Tule Review Fall 2013
Within

Johnson County Public Library's Poetry Month  - April 2013
On the Prairie

Earth's Daugters issue #82

Climbing a Tree in a Lightning Storm
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Publications 2011-2012

To the Stars Through Difficulty: A Kansas Regna of 150 Poets 2012
http://150kansaspoems.wordpress.com/

Whirlybird Anthology of Kansas City writers 2012
The Previous Owner

Gargoyle
Dr. MacDougall's Twenty-One Grams

Wilderness House Literary Review July 2012
Online
After Sixty Years
Box of Rocks
Boy
Castle Rock, Kansas
Button Jar
My Good Intention

The Frontier
In Suburbia
Make Way
On the Prairie
see urbanculturesstrudeioresidents.wordpress.com for information on launch and The Frontier Project

I-70 Review
Butterflies
Sept 2012

Tallgrass Voices
Kansas Rides
Identity
Take 2
Visions from the backseat window

Main Street Rag
Expecting
Divining
Spring 2012

Kansas Voices Contest
Honorable Mention
The Minute Hand Fell Off My Clock
reception May 7th, Winfield Ks 

Prairie Schooner
The Previous Owner
Fall 2011
Prairieschooner.unl.edu

Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poetry
because a seed landed here
Maestro
Visions from the Backseat Window
January 2011
Waves
July 2011
Introversion
Nature's Callings
July 2012

Flint Hills Review
Fluttering
Fall 2012

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Friday, July 27, 2012

Publications 2009-2010


KC Voices Magazine
Mother of the Year Contest
An Entire Life
2010 Edition
http://www.kansascityvoices.com/


KC Baby Magazine
Growth Chart
Fall 2010


KC Parent Magazine
Not Alone
September 2010


Kansas Authors Club Newletter
My Minivan, My Desk
August/September 2010


Because I said so: Poems on the happiness and crappiness of Parenthood (A collection of poems)
Fired
Three Days Old at 3am
Edited by Kevin Lee
Published by Aeortic Press


Flint Hills Review
A Mother Moment
Fall 2010
www.emporia.edu/fhr/

KC Parent Magazine
Focus
June 2010 http://www.kcparent.com/

Challenger International
Take 2
In Suburbia
summer 2010 edition http://challengerinternational.20m.com/


The Storyteller Magazine
Identity
Choices
April/May/June 2010 edition
http://www.storyteller.org/



The Little Balkans Review
Window Seat
Marriage
Inheritance
Ancestors
Publication TBA
http://www.littlebalkansreview.org/


Kansas Poets - Archive of Poetry about Kansas
August Kansas Evening
Kansas Rides
Published on site www.kansaspoets.com/kansas_poems.htm
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