Janice N. Harrington

Janice N. Harrington
Born1956 (age 67–68)
Vernon, Alabama
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Nebraska
University of Iowa(MLS)
Occupation(s)poet and children's writer
Websitehttps://janiceharrington.com/

Janice N. Harrington is an American storyteller, poet, and children's writer.[1]

Life

She grew up in Vernon, Alabama. Her family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to escape racial segregation when she was eight.[2] She now lives in Illinois.[3]

Her work appears in African American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review,[4] Beloit Poetry Journal, Harvard Review, Indiana Review,[5] Field,[6] Prairie Schooner,[7] Southern Review,[8] Black Nature[9] and other journals.

Career

She worked as a public librarian in Champaign, Illinois, and as a professional storyteller, appearing at the National Storytelling Festival.[10] Harrington was also the coordinator of youth services and a caregiver at the Champaign Public library.[3]She is now a professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[11]

Selected awards

  • 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
  • 2008 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, for Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone[12]
  • 2008 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize [13]
  • 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Poetry
  • 2007 TIME Magazine's top 10 children's books
  • 2007 Cybils Award for the year's best fiction picture book: "the children’s and YA bloggers’ literary awards"[14]
  • 2005 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, for Going North[15][16]
  • Illinois Arts Council Literary Award[17]

Works

Poetry

  • Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2016. ISBN 978-1-942683-20-9.
  • The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2011. ISBN 978-1-934414-54-5. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  • Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2007. ISBN 978-1-929918-89-8. Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  • "They All Sang". Harvard Review (28). 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-06-30.
  • "Shaking the Grass", Verse Daily

Children's

References

  1. ^ "Janice Harrington". Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  2. ^ "About the Author". Retrieved 2022-01-30.
  3. ^ a b "Janice N. Harrington." Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors, Gale, 2018. Gale Literature Resource Center, link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000327559/LitRC?u=clic_stthomas&sid=bookmark-LitRC&xid=aea4f77b. Accessed 5 Oct. 2023.
  4. ^ Spring & Summer 2003. Uaa.alaska.edu (2009-06-17). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  5. ^ Indiana Review Archived 2009-09-10 at the Wayback Machine. Indiana Review. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  6. ^ Oberlin College Press. Oberlin.edu. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  7. ^ UNL | Prairie Schooner | Archives | Fall 2004 Archived 2009-04-28 at the Wayback Machine. Prairieschooner.unl.edu (2009-07-23). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  8. ^ Harrington, Janice N. (2004). "Dechirage". The Southern Review.
  9. ^ Dungy, Camille (2009). Black Nature. The University of Georgia Press. pp. 130–131, 256–257. ISBN 978-0-8203-3277-2.
  10. ^ "Janice N. Harrington". Archived from the original on 2008-11-05. Retrieved 2009-07-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link). BOA Editions. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  11. ^ Janice N. Harrington Profile, Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois. English.illinois.edu. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  12. ^ Tufts Poetry Awards 2008 Page 2 Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. Cgu.edu (2008-04-15). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  13. ^ "A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize".
  14. ^ Cybils: The 2007 Cybils winners. Dadtalk.typepad.com (2008-02-14). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  15. ^ "EJK Award 1986-2010". Retrieved 2012-12-04.
  16. ^ Children's book award handbook – Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  17. ^ Ninth Letter Arts & Literary Journal Archived 2009-04-16 at the Wayback Machine. Ninthletter.com. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
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