Janet Heller, Project Manager, WritersCorps

Janet Heller has taught English in high schools, colleges, and community settings, and co-founded Runaway with Words, a creative writing program for runaway and homeless youth. She graduated with an MA in creative writing from Florida State University, and is a co-author of a chapbook of poetry, Back to Front, published in 1993 by Red Window Press. Her poems and essays have been published in Florida in Poetry: A History of the Imagination, Apalachee Quarterly, and the Southeast Review. In 1994, she received an Arts Administration Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the founder of San Francisco WritersCorps.