Janice N. Harrington
Janice N. Harrington | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | poet 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[]
- ^ Could Not Find – Authors Archived 2008-11-05 at the Wayback Machine. BOA Editions. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
- ^ Janice N. Harrington Profile, Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois. English.illinois.edu. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
- ^ Spring & Summer 2003. Uaa.alaska.edu (2009-06-17). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
- ^ Indiana Review Archived 2009-09-10 at the Wayback Machine. Indiana Review. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
- ^ Oberlin College Press. Oberlin.edu. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Harrington, Janice N. (2004). "Dechirage". The Southern Review.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Tufts Poetry Awards 2008 Page 2 Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. Cgu.edu (2008-04-15). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
- ^ Cybils: The 2007 Cybils winners. Dadtalk.typepad.com (2008-02-14). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
- ^ Retrieved on 2012-12-04.
- ^ Children's book award handbook – Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
- ^ Ninth Letter Arts & Literary Journal Archived 2009-04-16 at the Wayback Machine. Ninthletter.com. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to African Americans. |
- Official website
- "Featured Illinois Poet", selected by the Illinois Poet Laureate
- Janice N. Harrington at Library of Congress Authorities, with 6 catalog records
Categories:
- American children's writers
- University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign faculty
- Poets from Alabama
- American women poets
- American women children's writers
- Living people
- Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners