Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (or Creek)
Tribe. Her books of poetry include the award-winning In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan
University Press); She Had Some Horses (Thunder’s Mouth Press); Secrets from the
Center of the World (with Stephen Strom, University of Arizona Press); and The Woman Who
Fell From The Sky ( W.W. Norton). Other publications include The Spiral of Memory
(University of Michigan, Poets on Poets Series) and Reinventing the Enemy’s Language,
Contemporary Native Womens’ Writings of North America (edited with Gloria Bird). She has
received the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Delmore
Schwartz Award, The American Indian Distinguished Achievement Award, as well as two NEA
Creative Writing fellowships and a Witter Bynner Grant for Poetry. Joy Harjo also performs her
poetry and plays saxophone with her band Poetic Justice. She is a professor at the University
of New Mexico.
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