LaShonda Katrice Barnett

LaShonda Katrice Barnett is an American author, radio host, teacher, lecturer.[1] Her fiction, music books and plays are known for their themes about the African diaspora and race. She has a collection of short stories, three music books, a trilogy of full-length plays.[2] Her 2015 debut novel Jam! On the Vine, drew attention to the author and scholar.[3] In 2014, Barnett's short stories were featured in The Chicago Tribune, Gemini Magazine and Guernica Magazine. She's been nominated twice for the 2015 Pushcart Prize.[4]

Personal life and achievements

LaShonda Katrice Barnett was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1974.[5] She grew up on Park Forest, Illinois.[6] Barnett has identified herself as a lesbian[7] and often writes with same-sex female characters in mind in her short stories, plays and her first novel Jam! On the Vine. She's held residencies at the Noepe Center for Literary Arts-Martha’s Vineyard, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center.[8] She's been a Tennessee Williams Fellow and received a Standards Best Small Press Book Award for her short stories collection "Callalou & Other Lesbian Love Tales" in 2007.[9]

Barnett has a love for music, as evidenced with her jazz program for WBAI (99.5 FM, NYC).[10] She hosted a jazz show. In 2007, Barnett interviewed female musicians about the African diaspora and edited "I Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters On Their Craft and "Off The Record: Conversations With African American & Brazilian Women Musicians" in 2015. Barnett lectured on women in jazz at the Lincoln Center and in on jazz as a whole in several countries.[11]

Barnett taught at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College on history and literature.[12]

Education

Barnett received her B.A. from the University of Missouri, a M.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a Ph. D. in American Studies from the College of William and Mary.[13] She earned a B.A. in Women's History from the University of Missouri and an M.A. in Women's History from Sarah Lawrence College.[14] Barnett received grants for her work from National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the College Language Association.[15]

Current life

Barnett lives in upper west side Manhattan as a full-time writer.[16]

Works

Books

Short stories

See also

References

  1. ↑ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  2. ↑ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  3. ↑ "NPR". Black And Female In Jim Crow Era, A Reporter In 'Jam! On the Vine'. NPR. 2015-02-08.
  4. ↑ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  5. ↑ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  6. ↑ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  7. ↑ "LaShonda Katrice Barnett on Hot Lesbian Sex Scenes, the Black Press, and Her New Novel ‘Jam on the Vine’". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  8. ↑ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  9. ↑ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  10. ↑ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  11. ↑ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  12. ↑ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  13. ↑ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  14. ↑ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  15. ↑ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  16. ↑ "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  17. ↑ Taylor, Elizabeth (February 13, 2015). "Review: 'Jam on the Vine' by LaShonda Katrice Barnett". Chicago Tribune.

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