BOA Titles by Janice N. Harrington
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Janice N. Harrington
Janice N. Harrington’s writing explores cultural history, the natural world, visual arts, and African American life in the South and Midwest. Her latest poetry collection, Yard Show, won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, was a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award, and was longlisted (top 10) for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It follows her earlier collections: Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone, The Hands of Strangers, and Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin. Her first book won the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Harrington is also an award-winning children’s author. Her first picture book, Going North, received the Ezra Jack Keats Award, and she has since published numerous picture books, including biographies and a verse novel. A Cave Canem fellow, she is the Clayton and Thelma Kirkpatrick Professor of English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She lives in Champaign, Illinois, where she regularly visits prairies, Black history sites, and spaces that celebrate books.
For more information about Janice N. Harrington, visit www.janiceharrington.com.
