LaShonda Katrice Barnett

LaShonda Katrice Barnett is an African American author, professor, playwright, and radio host.[1] Her 2015 debut novel Jam! On the Vine, drew attention to the author and scholar.[2] Barnett has published short stories, edited numerous books on African American music, and released a trilogy of full-length plays.[3] Barnett's short stories have been featured in The Chicago Tribune, Gemini Magazine, Guernica Magazine, among other publications.

Personal life and achievements

LaShonda Katrice Barnett was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1974.[4] She grew up on Park Forest, Illinois.[3] Barnett has identified herself as a lesbian[5] 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.[3] 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.[3] She's been nominated twice for the 2015 Pushcart Prize.

Barnett has a love for music, as evidenced with her jazz program for WBAI (99.5 FM, NYC).[3] 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 has taught at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College on history and literature.[3]

Education

Barnett received a B.A. in linguistics from the University of Missouri and an M.A. in Women's Historyfrom Sarah Lawrence College.[1] She earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William and Mary in 2012.[6] 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.[3]

Current life

Barnett lives in upper west side Manhattan as a full-time writer.[7]

Works

Books

Short stories

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Helsel, Amber (October 17, 2016). "LaShonda Katrice Barnett". Jackson Free Press.
  2. ↑ "NPR". Black And Female In Jim Crow Era, A Reporter In 'Jam! On the Vine'. NPR. 2015-02-08.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "About". LaShonda Katrice Barnett. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
  4. ↑ "Booksmith".
  5. ↑ "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.
  6. ↑ "Experience the arts at W&M this spring". William and Mary.
  7. ↑ "Lamba".
  8. ↑ Taylor, Elizabeth (February 13, 2015). "Review: 'Jam on the Vine' by LaShonda Katrice Barnett". Chicago Tribune.
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