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5th
ANNUAL NORTHERN ARIZONA BOOK FESTIVAL |
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Joy
Harjo
Tulsa,
Oklahoma
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Photo Credit: Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie
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| Joy Harjo is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her books of poetry include
A Map to the Next World: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2000);
The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (1994), which received the Oklahoma Book Arts Award;
In Mad Love and War (1990), which received an American Book Award and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award;
Secrets from the Center of the World (1989); She Had Some Horses (1983); and
What Moon Drove Me to This? (1979). She performs her poetry and plays saxophone with her band, Poetic Justice. Her many honors include The American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award, the Josephine Miles Poetry Award, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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