Janice N Harrington

Janice N. Harrington's writing reflects her interest in cultural history, the natural world, visual arts, and African American life in the South and Midwest. Her latest book of poetry, Yard Show , grows out of her three earlier books of poems: Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone , The Hands of Strangers , and Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin . Harrington is also an award-winning children's writer. She is a Cave Canem fellow and teaches creative writing at the University of...See more

Janice N. Harrington's writing reflects her interest in cultural history, the natural world, visual arts, and African American life in the South and Midwest. Her latest book of poetry, Yard Show , grows out of her three earlier books of poems: Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone , The Hands of Strangers , and Primitive: The Art and Life of Horace H. Pippin . Harrington is also an award-winning children's writer. She is a Cave Canem fellow and teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. See less