Janice N Harrington

The Hands of Strangers

Poems from the Nursing Home

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The Hands of Strangers" portrays the tensions and moments of grace between aged nursing home residents and their healthcare workers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: BOA Editions
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9781934414545
• ISBN-10: 1934414549
• Artikelnr.: 33327564

Autorenporträt

Janice N. Harrington: Janice N. Harrington writes poetry and children's books. She grew up in Alabama and Nebraska, and both those settings figure largely in her writing. Her first book of poetry, Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone (2007), won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize from BOA Editions and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is also the winner of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Poetry and a 2009 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award for emerging women writers. The author as well of award-winning children's books, Harrington now teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois.