LaShonda Katrice Barnett
LaShonda Katrice Barnett is an American author, professor, playwright, and former radio host. She has published short stories, edited books on African American music, and written a trilogy of full-length plays.[1]
Her 2015 debut novel Jam on the Vine[2] received a Stonewall Book Award by the American Library Association (2016).[3] The novel courses the life of African American journalist Ivoe Williams. The book was named a finalist in the lesbian fiction category at the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards.[4]
Barnett's short fiction appears in numerous anthologies and in literary journals such as The Chicago Tribune's Printer's Row, Callaloo, Gemini Magazine, Guernica Magazine, S/N Review, The New Orleans Review, Foglilfter Journal, the Peacock Journal, and Amherst College's Common Literary Magazine, among other publications.
Biography[]
LaShonda Katrice Barnett was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1974.[5] She grew up, one of five children, in Park Forest, Illinois.
Barnett received a B.A. in English Language and Literature and Linguistics (with language specialization in German and Russian) from the University of Missouri and an M.A. in Women's History from Sarah Lawrence College.[6] She earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary.[1] Barnett has been a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority since 1994. She lives in Chicago.
She has held residencies at the Noepe Center for Literary Arts-Martha's Vineyard, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center.[1] In 2015, she was twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize.[citation needed] She has taught at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, Brown University, Northwestern University and Syracuse University on history and literature of the African diaspora and Women's Studies.[1] A lover and scholar of black music, especially jazz, she hosted her own jazz program, Mapping Jazz, for WBAI (99.5 FM, NYC).[1]
In 2007, Barnett's personal interviews on creative process with women musicians resulted in the book I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters On Their Craft and Off The Record: Conversations With African American & Brazilian Women Musicians in 2015.
Barnett has received grants for her work from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities; and awards from the New York Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the College Language Association (for best short fiction).[1]
Legal troubles[]
She has been arrested dining and dashing in Chicago restaurants.[7] [8]
Works[]
Books[]
- LaShonda K. Barnett, (ed.) I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters on Their Craft, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007, ISBN 9781568583310
- Off the Record: Conversations with African American and Brazilian Women Musicians, Scarecrow Press, Incorporated, 2012, ISBN 9780810877467
- Jam on the Vine: A Novel. Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated. 3 February 2015. ISBN 978-0-8021-9157-1.[9]
- Callaloo and Other Lesbian Love Tales. New Victoria Publishers. October 1999 ISBN 978-1892281081.
Short stories[]
- "Callaloo" (2007)
- "Dear, dear Shay" (2012)
- "Road to Wingo" (2013)
- "Courage, Meine Freundin" (2013)
- "Hen's Teeth" (2013)
- "533" (2013)
- "Broken Shoes For Walking (Wings That Never Fit)" (2014)
- "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" (2014)
- "Graf" (2014)
- "Waltz Me Once Again" (2015)
- "You're the Sweetest One" (2017)
See also[]
- American literature
- African American literature
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ "NPR". Black And Female In Jim Crow Era, A Reporter In 'Jam! On the Vine'. NPR. 2015-02-08.
- ^ "2016 Stonewall Book Awards Announced". News and Press Center, American Library Association. January 12, 2016. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
- ^ Parrott, Kiera (March 8, 2016). "2016 Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced". Library Journal Reviews. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
- ^ "Booksmith".
- ^ Helsel, Amber (October 17, 2016). "LaShonda Katrice Barnett". Jackson Free Press.
- ^ {{Cite web|title = LaShonda Katrice Barnett |author=Helsel, Amber |url = http://publicsearch1.chicagopolice.org/Arrests/Details/17993197 |website}
- ^ {{Cite web|title = LaShonda Katrice Barnett |author=Helsel, Amber |url = http://publicsearch1.chicagopolice.org/Arrests/Details/17982950 |website}
- ^ Taylor, Elizabeth (February 13, 2015). "Review: 'Jam on the Vine' by LaShonda Katrice Barnett". Chicago Tribune.
External links[]
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- 21st-century American women writers
- African-American novelists
- African-American women writers
- American feminist writers
- American radio personalities
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- American women short story writers
- LGBT African Americans
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