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Name
  
Janice Harrington


Role
  
Poet

Janice N. Harrington wwwjaniceharringtoncomimagesjanice01jpg

Awards
  
The Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Awards

Books
  
The chicken‑chasing queen of, Going North, Even the Hollow My Body Ma, Roberto walks home, Busy‑Busy Little Chick

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

Contents

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. She now teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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 New Writer Award, for Going North
  • Illinois Arts Council Literary Award

    • Poetry

  • The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2011. ISBN 978-1-934414-54-5. 
  • Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2007. ISBN 978-1-929918-89-8. 
  • "They All Sang". Harvard Review (28). 2005. Archived from the original on 2009-06-30. 
  • "Shaking the Grass", Verse Daily

    • Children's

  • Busy-Busy Little Chick. Illustrator Brian Pinkney. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2013. ISBN 978-0-374-34746-8. 
  • Roberto Walks Home. Illustrator Jody Wheeler. Viking Penguin. 2008. ISBN 978-0-670-06316-1. 
  • The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County. Illustrator Shelley Jackson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2007. ISBN 978-0-374-31251-0. 
  • Going North. Illustrator Jerome Lagarrigue. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2004. ISBN 978-0-374-32681-4. 

    • She also wrote a book called Catching a Story Fish

    References

    Janice N. Harrington Wikipedia
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