Joy Harjo (b. Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, and author of Native American ancestry. Known primarily as a poet, Harjo has also taught at the college level, played tenor saxophone with a band called Poetic Justice, edited literary journals, and written screenplays. She is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.

Bibliography

Poetry

• How We Become Human New and Selected Poems: 1975 - 2001 (2002)
• A Map to the Next World (2000).
• The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (1994) received the Oklahoma Book Award.
• "Fishing" (1992)
• In Mad Love and War (1990) received an American Book Award and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award.
• Secrets from the Center of the World (1989).
• She Had Some Horses (1983).
• What Moon Drove Me to This? (1979).
• The Last Song (1975).

Children's Book

• The Good Luck Cat (2000)

Discography

Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice

• Letter From the End of the Twentieth Century (1997).

Poetry

• Native Joy for Real
• She Had Some Horses
• When the World As We Knew It Ended

References

• Bochynski, Pegge. Review of "How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001 by Joy Harjo". Magill’s Literary Annual, 2003. Ed. John D. Wilson and Steven G. Kellman. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2003. Pages 379-383.
• "Joy Harjo" by Pegge Bochynski, in American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies, Supplement XII edited by Jay Parini. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003. Pages 215-234.
• “She Had Some Horses” by Pegge Bochynski in Masterplots II, Poetry, Revised edition. Ed. Philip K. Jason. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 2002. Pages 3369-3371.
• Stone, Louise M. Update and revision by Pegge Bochynski. “Joy Harjo” in Magill Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition. Ed. Steven G. Kellman. Pasadena, Calif. Salem Press, 2006. Pages 980-988.

See also

• List of writers from peoples indigenous to the Americas
• Native American Renaissance
• Native American Studies

External links

• Joy Harjo's website
• Joy Harjo, Author - Poet - Musician
• VG biography