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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

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.
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.
"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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
Roberto Walks Home. Illustrator Jody Wheeler. Viking Penguin. 2008. ISBN 978-0-670-06316-1.{{cite book}}: 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
Going North. Illustrator Jerome Lagarrigue. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2004. ISBN 978-0-374-32681-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

She also wrote a book called Catching a Story Fish

Notes

Janice N. Harrington’s Even the Hollow My Body Made is Gone also dwells in place, and it creates its world with an authorial I even more effaced than Baker’s. The place is the American south in the mid-20th century, and before we meet its people we learn, from Harrington’s intense, cadence-driven lines, that we will be reading a poetry that calls out and sings to the world. The propulsive Alexandrine opening couplet of The Thief’s Tabernacle, which begins the collection, marks Harrington as the most rhythmically driven of these three poets...^[13]

References

^ Could Not Find – Authors. 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. Indiana Review. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
^ Oberlin College Press. Oberlin.edu. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
^ UNL | Prairie Schooner | Archives | Fall 2004. 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. 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. Ninthletter.com. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.
^ Steve Wingate (2009-01-01). "Three New Poets I Met at Bread Loaf". Gently Read Lit.

External links

Official website
"Featured Illinois Poet", selected by the Illinois Poet Laureate
Janice N. Harrington at Library of Congress, with 6 library catalog records

[1] Could Not Find – Authors. BOA Editions. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.

[2] Janice N. Harrington Profile, Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois. English.illinois.edu. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.

[3] Spring & Summer 2003. Uaa.alaska.edu (2009-06-17). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.

[4] Indiana Review. Indiana Review. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.

[5] Oberlin College Press. Oberlin.edu. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.

[6] UNL | Prairie Schooner | Archives | Fall 2004. Prairieschooner.unl.edu (2009-07-23). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.

[7] Harrington, Janice N. (2004). "Dechirage". The Southern Review.^{[permanent dead link]}

[8] Tufts Poetry Awards 2008 Page 2. Cgu.edu (2008-04-15). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.

[9] Cybils: The 2007 Cybils winners. Dadtalk.typepad.com (2008-02-14). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.

[10] Retrieved on 2012-12-04.

[11] Children's book award handbook – Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.

[12] Ninth Letter Arts & Literary Journal. Ninthletter.com. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.

[13] Steve Wingate (2009-01-01). "Three New Poets I Met at Bread Loaf". Gently Read Lit.

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-Her work appears in ''African American Review'', ''Alaska Quarterly Review'',<ref>[http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/aqr/back-issues/20_3and4.cfm Spring & Summer 2003]. Uaa.alaska.edu (2009-06-17). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.</ref> ''Beloit Poetry Journal'', ''Harvard Review'', ''Indiana Review'',<ref>[http://indianareview.org/content/issue311/summer09.html Indiana Review]. Indiana Review. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.</ref> ''Field'',<ref>[http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/field.html Oberlin College Press]. Oberlin.edu. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.</ref> ''Prairie Schooner'',<ref>[http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/archives/fall04/index.html UNL | Prairie Schooner | Archives | Fall 2004]. Prairieschooner.unl.edu (2009-07-23). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.</ref> ''Southern Review'',<ref>{{cite news| url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3549/is_1_40/ai_n29075119/?tag=content;col1 | work=The Southern Review | title=Dechirage | first=Janice N. | last=Harrington | year=2004}}</ref> and other journals.
+Her work appears in ''African American Review'', ''Alaska Quarterly Review'',<ref>[http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/aqr/back-issues/20_3and4.cfm Spring & Summer 2003]. Uaa.alaska.edu (2009-06-17). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.</ref> ''Beloit Poetry Journal'', ''Harvard Review'', ''Indiana Review'',<ref>[http://indianareview.org/content/issue311/summer09.html Indiana Review]. Indiana Review. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.</ref> ''Field'',<ref>[http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/field.html Oberlin College Press]. Oberlin.edu. Retrieved on 2010-12-01.</ref> ''Prairie Schooner'',<ref>[http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/archives/fall04/index.html UNL | Prairie Schooner | Archives | Fall 2004]. Prairieschooner.unl.edu (2009-07-23). Retrieved on 2010-12-01.</ref> ''Southern Review'',<ref>{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3549/is_1_40/ai_n29075119/?tag=content;col1 |work=The Southern Review |title=Dechirage |first=Janice N. |last=Harrington |year=2004 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and other journals.
 ==Selected Awards==

Authority control databases
International	ISNI VIAF WorldCat
National	United States Korea