JOY HARJO
Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation. Her seven books of poetry include "She
Had Some Horses," "The Woman Who Fell From The Sky," and "How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems." Her poetry has
garnered many awards including a Lila Wallace - Reader's Digest Awards, The New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in
the Arts, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas, and the William Carlos Williams
Award from the Poetry Society of America.
Harjo has released three award-winning CDs of original music and performances: Letter from the End of the TWentieth Century, Native
Joy for Real, and She Had Some Horses.
A song from her forthcoming CD "Winding Throught The Milky Way," just won a New Mexico Music Award. She has received the Eagle Spirit
Achievement Award for overall contributions in the arts, from the American Indian Film Festival. She performs internationally solo and
with her band Joy Harjo and the Arrow Dynamics Band (for which she sings and plays saxophone and flutes), and premiered a preview of her
one-woman show, "Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light" at the Public Theater in NYC in December 07.
Harjo co-wrote the signature film of the National Museum of the American Indian, "A Thousand Roads." She is a founding board member of
the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation.
Harjo writes a column "Comings and Goings" for her tribal newspaper, the Muscogee Nation News. She lives in Honolulu, Hawai'i where
she is a member of the Hui Nalu Canoe Club.
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