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
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 lifeWeaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Joy Harjo, Sandra Cisneros
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
Joy Harjo, Sandra Cisneros
E Book, 2022
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet.Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America
Gloria Bird, Joy Harjo
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