Janice N. Harrington is an American storyteller, poet, and children's writer.
Life She grew up in Vernon, Alabama. Her family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to escape racial segregation when she was eight. She now lives in Illinois."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.
Her work appears in African American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review,Spring & Summer 2003. Uaa.alaska.edu (2009-06-17). Retrieved on 2010-12-01. Beloit Poetry Journal, Harvard Review, Indiana Review,Indiana Review . Indiana Review. Retrieved on 2010-12-01. Field,Oberlin College Press. Oberlin.edu. Retrieved on 2010-12-01. Prairie Schooner,UNL | Prairie Schooner | Archives | Fall 2004 . Prairieschooner.unl.edu (2009-07-23). Retrieved on 2010-12-01. Southern Review, Black Nature and other journals.
Career She worked as a public librarian in Champaign, Illinois, and as a professional storyteller, appearing at the National Storytelling Festival.. BOA Editions. Retrieved on 2010-12-01. 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.Janice N. Harrington Profile, Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois . English.illinois.edu. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
Selected awards 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award 2008 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, for Even the Hollow My Body Made Is GoneTufts Poetry Awards 2008 Page 2 . Cgu.edu (2008-04-15). Retrieved on 2010-12-01. 2008 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"Cybils: The 2007 Cybils winners. Dadtalk.typepad.com (2008-02-14). Retrieved on 2010-12-01. 2005 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award, for Going NorthChildren's book award handbook – Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved on 2010-12-01. Illinois Arts Council Literary AwardNinth Letter Arts & Literary Journal . Ninthletter.com. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
Works
Poetry Yard Show. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2024. .
"Shaking the Grass", Verse Daily
Children's
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External links
"Featured Illinois Poet", selected by the Illinois Poet Laureate