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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