Janice N. Harrington

Janice N. Harrington
Born	1956 (age 68–69) Vernon, Alabama
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Nebraska–Lincoln University of Iowa (MLS)
Occupation(s)	poet and children's writer
Website	https://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

• Yard Show. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2024. ISBN   9781960145314.
• 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

• Buzzing with Questions: The Inquisitive Mind of Charles Henry Turner . Illustrator Theodore Taylor III. Calkins Creek. 2019. ISBN   978-1-629-79558-4.
• Catching a Storyfish. WordSong. 2016. ISBN   978-1-62979-429-7.
• Busy-Busy Little Chick . Illustrator Brian Pinkney. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2013. ISBN   978-0-374-34746-8.
• Roberto Walks Home . Illustrator Jody Wheeler. Viking Penguin. 2008. ISBN   978-0-670-06316-1.
• The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County. Illustrator Shelley Jackson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2007. ISBN   978-0-374-31251-0.
• Going North. Illustrator Jerome Lagarrigue. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2004. ISBN   978-0-374-32681-4.

References

1. "Janice Harrington" . Retrieved 2022-01-30.
2. "About the Author" . Retrieved 2022-01-30.
3. "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.. 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.

External links

• Children's literature portal

• Official website
• "Featured Illinois Poet", selected by the Illinois Poet Laureate
• Janice N. Harrington at Library of Congress , with 6library catalog records