{"id":5589,"date":"2016-06-03T14:35:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-03T21:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5589"},"modified":"2016-06-03T14:44:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T21:44:38","slug":"harrington-janice-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=5589","title":{"rendered":"HARRINGTON, JANICE N."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer; storyteller; college teacher of creative writing.\u00a0 Born in Vernon, Ala.; moved to Nebraska at the age of eight.\u00a0 Education:\u00a0 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, B.S., 1978; University of Iowa, M.L.S., 1980. Worked as a librarian in the 1980&#8217;s; Coordinator of Youth Services for the Champaign Public Library, 1990-2007.\u00a0\u00a0Has taught in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign since 2007.\u00a0 Has received many awards for her books:\u00a0 Awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Poetry in 2007 and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers&#8217; Award in 2009. Received the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize from BOA Editions and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.\u00a0 2008 Alabama Author of the Year for Children&#8217;s Books.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Something about the Author; University of Illinois website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Busy-busy Little Chick.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Farrar, Straus, &amp; Giroux, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicken Chasing Queen of Lamar County.\u00a0 BOA Editions, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone. BOA editions, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Finding a StoryFish.\u00a0 WordSong, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Going North. Farrar, Straus, &amp; Giroux, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The Hands of Strangers:\u00a0 Poems from the Nursing Home. BOA editions, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Primitive:\u00a0 The Art and Life of Horace E. Pippin.\u00a0 BOA, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Roberto Walks Home.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Viking\/Penguin, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Writer; storyteller; college teacher of creative writing.\u00a0 Born in Vernon, Ala.; moved to Nebraska at the age of eight.\u00a0 Education:\u00a0 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, B.S., 1978; University of Iowa, M.L.S., 1980. Worked as a librarian in the 1980&#8217;s; Coordinator of Youth Services for the Champaign Public Library, 1990-2007.\u00a0\u00a0Has taught in the Creative Writing Program at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5589"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5595,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions\/5595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}