Joy Harjo

Author

Bio

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is serving her second term as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States. The author of nine books of poetry, including the highly acclaimed An American Sunrise, several plays and children's books, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior, her many honors include the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, two NEA fellowships, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. As a musician and performer, Harjo has produced seven award-winning music albums including her newest, I Pray for My Enemies. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is the first Artist-in-Residence for Tulsa's Bob Dylan Center. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Joy Harjo Books

Washing My Mother's Body

Joy Harjo

Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years

Joy Harjo

Mankiller Poems

Wilma Mankiller

Poet Warrior: A Memoir

Joy Harjo

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

Joy Harjo

When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry

Joy Harjo

An American Sunrise: Poems

Joy Harjo

Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light

Joy Harjo

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

Joy Harjo

Soul Talk, Song Language

Joy Harjo

Crazy Brave: A Memoir

Joy Harjo

Women of Color Pray

Christal M. Jackson

She Had Some Horses: Poems

Joy Harjo

Winter in the Blood

James Welch

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002

Joy Harjo

A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales

Joy Harjo

The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems

Joy Harjo