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Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo
Awards
Winner — PEN/Open Book Award, 2002
Winner — Oklahoma Book Award, 2003
Winner — Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award, 2021
Longlisted — ALA Carnegie Medal, 2022
Winner — Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award, 2022
Winner — Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, 2023
Winner — Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award, 2023
Books by Joy Harjo
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Paperback, 2022
Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Hardback, 2022
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet.
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
E Book, 2022
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet.
For a Girl Becoming
Hardback, 2025
From United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and Pura Belpré Award–winning illustrator Adriana Garcia: a luminous benediction for a girl’s journey through life, and a celebration of our connections...
For a Girl Becoming
E Book
From United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo and Pura Belpré Award–winning illustrator Adriana Garcia: a luminous benediction for a girl’s journey through life, and a celebration of our connections...
Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age
Hardback, 2025
An inspirational work of wisdom, warmth, and generosity from a three-term US poet laureate.
Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age
E Book
An inspirational work of wisdom, warmth, and generosity from a three-term US poet laureate.
Crazy Brave: A Memoir
Hardback, 2012
A spiritual coming-of-age memoir from a poet praised for her "breathtaking complex witness and world-remaking language" (Adrienne Rich).
Cloud Runner: Poems
Hardback, 2026
Three-term U.S. Poet Laureate returns with a moving collection about grief, loss, and how art can transform suffering.
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America
Paperback, 1999
"A collection of important, eloquent, and often mesmerizing writings by American Indian Women. . . . A profoundly moving statement of resilience and renewal."—San Francisco Chronicle