LaSHONDA KATRICE BARNETT's roots began in Kansas City, Missouri, made the northerly jaunt to Park Forest, Illinois, where she grew up, and eventually spread to New York City, the metropolis she calls home. Recipient of the College Language Association's Margaret Walker Award for Short Fiction and the New York Money for Women- Barbara Deming Artist Grant for Short Fiction, Barnett is the author of Callaloo (New Victoria Publishers, 1999).
A lover and scholar of black music and an avid interviewer, Barnett conducted over forty interviews with singer-songwriters and edited the volumes, I GOT THUNDER: Black Women Songwriters On Their Craft (DaCapo Press, 2007) and OFF THE RECORD: Conversations With African American & Brazilian Women Musicians, (forthcoming, Scarecrow Press, 2011). She has hosted her own jazz radio program on WBAI (99.5 FM, NYC); consulted and taught 'Women in Jazz' at New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center; and lectured on the music both nationally and internationally in Austria, Brazil, France, Germany and South Africa.
Barnett has taught literature and history at the University of Richmond, Hampton University, Columbia University's Institute for Research in African American Studies, and Sarah Lawrence College. Currently, she teaches African American literature at the City University of New York. She lives in Manhattan where she is completing her first historical novel.
photo credit: Mark Kornbluth
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