Janice N. Harrington
Encyclopedia
Life
She grew up in Alabama and Nebraska.She worked as a public librarian in Champaign, Illinois
Champaign, Illinois
Champaign is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, in the United States. The city is located south of Chicago, west of Indianapolis, Indiana, and 178 miles northeast of St. Louis, Missouri. Though surrounded by farm communities, Champaign is notable for sharing the campus of the University of...
, and as a professional storyteller, appearing at the National Storytelling Festival
National Storytelling Festival
The National Storytelling Festival is held the first full weekend of October in Jonesborough, Tennessee at the International Storytelling Center. The National Storytelling Festival was founded by Jimmy Neil Smith, a high school journalism teacher in 1973...
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She now teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...
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Her work appears in African American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, Field, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, and other journals.
Selected Awards
- 2008 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, for Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone
- 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"
- 2005 Ezra Jack Keats Award from the New York Public LibraryNew York Public LibraryThe New York Public Library is the largest public library in North America and is one of the United States' most significant research libraries...
- Illinois Arts Council Literary Award
Poetry
External links
- "JaniceHarrington.com"
- "Featured Illinois Poet", selected by the Illinois Poet Laureate