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.