Janice N. Harrington | |
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Born | 1956 (age 67–68) Vernon, Alabama |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Nebraska University of Iowa(MLS) |
Occupation(s) | poet and children's writer |
Website | https://janiceharrington.com/ |
Janice N. Harrington is an American storyteller, poet, and children's writer.[1]
She grew up in Vernon, Alabama. Her family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to escape racial segregation when she was eight.[2] She now lives in Illinois.[3]
Her work appears in African American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review,[4] Beloit Poetry Journal, Harvard Review, Indiana Review,[5] Field,[6] Prairie Schooner,[7] Southern Review,[8] Black Nature[9] and other journals.
She worked as a public librarian in Champaign, Illinois, and as a professional storyteller, appearing at the National Storytelling Festival.[10] Harrington was also the coordinator of youth services and a caregiver at the Champaign Public library.[3]She is now a professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[11]
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