Janice N. Harrington

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Janice N. Harrington
NationalityAmerican
Occupationpoet and children's writer

Janice N. Harrington is an American poet and children's writer.

Life[]

She grew up in Alabama and Nebraska.

She worked as a public librarian in Champaign, Illinois, and as a professional storyteller, appearing at the National Storytelling Festival.[1] She now teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[2]

Her work appears in African American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review,[3] Beloit Poetry Journal, Harvard Review, Indiana Review,[4] Field,[5] Prairie Schooner,[6] Southern Review,[7] and other journals.

Selected awards[]

  • 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
  • 2008 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, for Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone[8]
  • A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
  • 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"[9]
  • 2005 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, for Going North[10][11]
  • Illinois Arts Council Literary Award[12]

Works[]

Poetry[]

  • The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2011. ISBN 978-1-934414-54-5. Archived from the original on 2012-01-30. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  • Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2007. ISBN 978-1-929918-89-8. Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
  • "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.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • 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.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Roberto Walks Home. Illustrator Jody Wheeler. Viking Penguin. 2008. ISBN 978-0-670-06316-1.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County. Illustrator Shelley Jackson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2007. ISBN 978-0-374-31251-0.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Going North. Illustrator Jerome Lagarrigue. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2004. ISBN 978-0-374-32681-4.CS1 maint: others (link)

References[]

  1. ^ Could Not Find – Authors Archived 2008-11-05 at the Wayback Machine. BOA Editions. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  2. ^ Janice N. Harrington Profile, Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois. English.illinois.edu. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  3. ^ Spring & Summer 2003. Uaa.alaska.edu (2009-06-17). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  4. ^ Indiana Review Archived 2009-09-10 at the Wayback Machine. Indiana Review. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  5. ^ Oberlin College Press. Oberlin.edu. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Harrington, Janice N. (2004). "Dechirage". The Southern Review.[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ Tufts Poetry Awards 2008 Page 2 Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. Cgu.edu (2008-04-15). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  9. ^ Cybils: The 2007 Cybils winners. Dadtalk.typepad.com (2008-02-14). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  10. ^ Retrieved on 2012-12-04.
  11. ^ Children's book award handbook – Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
  12. ^ Ninth Letter Arts & Literary Journal Archived 2009-04-16 at the Wayback Machine. Ninthletter.com. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.

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