Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is the author of nine poetry collections and two memoirs, most recently Poet Warrior. The recipient of the 2023 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and the 2017 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, she lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She is the author of nine poetry collections and two memoirs, most recently Poet Warrior. The recipient of the 2023 Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and the 2017 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, she lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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
Joy Harjo
Hardback, 2021
US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life.Crazy Brave: A Memoir
Joy Harjo
E Book, 2012
A “raw and honest” (Los Angeles Review of Books) memoir from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States.Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems
Joy Harjo
E Book, 2015
A musical, magical, resilient volume from one of the most celebrated Native American voices.Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Joy Harjo
E Book, 2021
Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing lifeA Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales
Joy Harjo
E Book, 2012
"This breathtakingly honest collection of writings is alive with deeply felt and beautifully expressed emotions."—Wilma MankillerHow We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002
Joy Harjo
E Book, 2012
Over a quarter-century's work from the 2003 winner of the Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement.She Had Some Horses: Poems
Joy Harjo
E Book, 2012
A new edition of the beloved volume by Joy Harjo, one of our foremost Native American poets.When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry
Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster
E Book, 2020
The first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology, without which no study of American poetry is complete.Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
Joy Harjo, Carla D. Hayden, The Library of Congress
E Book, 2021
A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native American poets writing today.An American Sunrise: Poems
Joy Harjo
E Book, 2019
A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, informed by her tribal history and connection to the land.