Janice N. Harrington

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. 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

Poetry

• The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2011. ISBN 978-1-934414-54-5. Archived from the original on 2012-01-30. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
• Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone. BOA Editions, Ltd. 2007. ISBN 978-1-929918-89-8. Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
• "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.CS1 maint: others (link)
• Roberto Walks Home. Illustrator Jody Wheeler. Viking Penguin. 2008. ISBN 978-0-670-06316-1.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.CS1 maint: others (link)
• Going North. Illustrator Jerome Lagarrigue. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2004. ISBN 978-0-374-32681-4.CS1 maint: others (link)

She also wrote a book called Catching a Story Fish