LaShonda K. Barnett
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LaShonda Katrice Barnett is an American author, radio host, teacher, lecturer.[1] Her fiction, music books and plays are known for their themes about the African diaspora and race. She has a collection of short stories, three music books, a trilogy of full-length plays.[2] Her 2015 debut novel Jam! On the Vine, drew attention to the author and scholar.[3] In 2014, Barnett's short stories were featured in The Chicago Tribune, Gemini Magazine and Guernica Magazine. She's been nominated twice for the 2015 Pushcart Prize.[4]
Personal life and achievements
LaShonda Katrice Barnett was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1974.[5] She grew up on Park Forest, Illinois.[6] Barnett has identified herself as a lesbian[7] and often writes with same-sex female characters in mind in her short stories, plays and her first novel Jam! On the Vine. She's held residencies at the Noepe Center for Literary Arts-Martha’s Vineyard, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center.[8] She's been a Tennessee Williams Fellow and received a Standards Best Small Press Book Award for her short stories collection "Callalou & Other Lesbian Love Tales" in 2007.[9]
Barnett has a love for music, as evidenced with her jazz program for WBAI (99.5 FM, NYC).[10] She hosted a jazz show. In 2007, Barnett interviewed female musicians about the African diaspora and edited "I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters On Their Craft and "Off The Record: Conversations With African American & Brazilian Women Musicians" in 2015. Barnett lectured on women in jazz at the Lincoln Center and in on jazz as a whole in several countries.[11]
Barnett taught at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College on history and literature.[12]
Education
Barnett received her B.A. from the University of Missouri, a M.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a Ph. D. in American Studies from the College of William and Mary.[13] She earned a B.A. in Women's History from the University of Missouri and an M.A. in Women's History from Sarah Lawrence College.[14] Barnett received grants for her work from National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the College Language Association.[15]
Current life
Barnett lives in upper west side Manhattan as a full-time writer.[16]
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. pp. 29–. ISBN 978-0-8021-9157-1.[17]
Short stories
- "Waltz Me Once Again" (2015)
- "Broken Shoes For Walking (Wings That Never Fit)" (2014)
- "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" (2014)
- "Graf" (2014)
- "Road to Wingo" (2013)
- "Courage, Meine Freundin" (2013)
- "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" (2013)
- "Hen's Teeth" (2013)
- "533" (2013)
- "Dear, dear Shay" (2012)
- "Callaloo" (2007)
See also
References
- ^ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ "LaShonda Katrice Barnett on Hot Lesbian Sex Scenes, the Black Press, and Her New Novel 'Jam on the Vine'". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
- ^ Taylor, Elizabeth (February 13, 2015). "Review: 'Jam on the Vine' by LaShonda Katrice Barnett". Chicago Tribune.
External links
- Lesbian writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- American feminist writers
- 1974 births
- Living people
- Writers from Kansas City, Missouri
- 21st-century women writers
- LGBT writers from the United States
- American women novelists
- LGBT African Americans
- African-American women writers
- African-American novelists
- American women short story writers
- American radio personalities
- 21st-century American short story writers