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Janice N. Harrington
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| Born | 1956 (age 66–67) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Nebraska University of Iowa(MLS) |
| Occupation | poet and children's writer |
Janice N. Harrington is an American storyteller, poet, and children's writer.
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Life
She grew up in Vernon, Alabama. Her family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to escape racial segregation when she was eight.
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
- 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
- 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
Works
Children's
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