Janice N. Harrington Explained

Janice N. Harrington
Alma Mater:	University of Nebraska University of Iowa(MLS)
Birth Place:	Vernon, Alabama
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	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.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

• Book: Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin . BOA Editions, Ltd.. 2016. 978-1-942683-20-9.
• Book: The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home. BOA Editions, Ltd.. 2011. 978-1-934414-54-5. 2022-01-30.
• Book: Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone . BOA Editions, Ltd. . 2007 . 978-1-929918-89-8 . 2022-01-30.
• They All Sang . Harvard Review . 28 . 2005 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090630093209/http://www.cstone.net/~poems/theyahar.htm . 2009-06-30 .
• "Shaking the Grass", Verse Daily

Children's

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

External links

• • "Featured Illinois Poet", selected by the Illinois Poet Laureate

Notes and References

1. Web site: Janice Harrington. 2022-01-30.
2. Web site: About the Author. 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. http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/aqr/back-issues/20_3and4.cfm Spring & Summer 2003
5. http://indianareview.org/content/issue311/summer09.html Indiana Review
6. http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/field.html Oberlin College Press
7. http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/archives/fall04/index.html UNL | Prairie Schooner | Archives | Fall 2004
8. Dechirage . The Southern Review . Janice N. . Harrington . 2004 .
9. Book: Dungy, Camille . Black Nature . The University of Georgia Press . 2009 . 978-0-8203-3277-2 . 130-131, 256-257.
10. Web site: Janice N. Harrington . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20081105155437/http://boaeditions.org/authors/harrington.html . 2008-11-05 . 2009-07-05. . BOA Editions. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
11. http://www.english.illinois.edu/people/jharr Janice N. Harrington Profile, Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois
12. http://www.cgu.edu/pages/5498.asp Tufts Poetry Awards 2008 Page 2
13. Web site: A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.
14. http://dadtalk.typepad.com/cybils/2008/02/the-2007-cybils.html#more Cybils: The 2007 Cybils winners
15. Web site: EJK Award 1986-2010. 2012-12-04.
16. https://books.google.com/books?id=IU5cc4oslosC&pg=PA162&dq=Janice+N.+Harrington Children's book award handbook – Google Books
17. http://www.ninthletter.com/printed_journal/issue/2 Ninth Letter Arts & Literary Journal