Janice N. Harrington is an American storyteller, poet, and children's writer.

Life

She grew up in Vernon, Alabama. Her family moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to escape racial segregation when she was eight. She now lives in Illinois. Her work appears in African American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Harvard Review, Indiana Review, Field, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Black Nature and other journals.

Career

She worked as a public librarian in Champaign, Illinois, and as a professional storyteller, appearing at the National Storytelling Festival. Harrington was also the coordinator of youth services and a caregiver at the Champaign Public library. She is now a professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Selected awards

Works

Poetry

Children's