LaShonda Katrice Barnett

LaShonda Katrice Barnett (born May 27, 1974) is an American author, playwright, and former radio host. She has published short stories, edited books on African-American music, and written a trilogy of full-length plays.

Her 2015 debut novel Jam on the Vine received a Stonewall Book Award by the American Library Association (2016). The novel courses the life of African American journalist Ivoe Williams. The book was named a finalist in the lesbian fiction category at the 2016 Lambda Literary Awards.

Barnett's short fiction appears in numerous anthologies and in literary journals such as The Chicago Tribune ("Printer's Row"), Callaloo, Gemini Magazine, Guernica Magazine, Foglilfter Journal, Peacock Journal, and Amherst College's Common Literary Magazine, among other publications.

Biography Barnett was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1974 and grew up as one of five siblings in Park Forest, Cook County, Illinois.

Barnett received a B.A. in English Language and Literature and Linguistics (with language specialization in German and Russian) from the University of Missouri and an M.A. in Women's History from Sarah Lawrence College. She earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary. Callaloo and Other Lesbian Love Tales. New Victoria Publishers. October 1999.

Short stories "Callaloo" (2007) "Dear, dear Shay" (2012) "Road to Wingo" (2013) "Courage, Meine Freundin" (2013) "Hen's Teeth" (2013) "533" (2013) "Broken Shoes For Walking (Wings That Never Fit)" (2014) "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" (2014) "Graf" (2014) "Waltz Me Once Again" (2015) "You're the Sweetest One" (2017)