Janine Harrison

Janine Harrison teaches creative writing at Purdue University Northwest and is the 2017 Highland (IN) Poet Laureate. She wrote If We Were Birds (Moria, 2017). Her work has also appeared or is forthcoming in Veils, Halos, and Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression and Empowerment of Women, A&U, Not Like the Rest of Us: An Anthology of Contemporary Indiana Writers, Broadsheet, and other publications. Former Indiana Poet Laureate George Kalamaras included Janine in his The Wabash Watershed “Six Indiana Women Poets” feature. She is a former leader of the Indiana Writers’ Consortium and reviews poetry for The Florida Review.

Janine will be performing during the Speakeasy @ Artspace!