Joy Harjo

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

In 1995, Harjo received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.

Poetry
(2000)
 * How We Became Human New and Selected Poems: 1975 - 2001 (2002)
 * The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (1994) received the Oklahoma Book Award

(1989)
 * In Mad Love and War (1990) received an American Book Award and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award

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 * What Moon Drove Me to This? (1979)
 * Remember
 * The Last Song (chapbook). Las Cruces, NM: Puerto Del Sol Press, NM), 1975.
 * What Moon Drove Me to This? (contains The Last Song). New York, NY: I. Reed Books, 1980.
 * New Orleans. 1983. "
 * The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window. 1983.
 * She Had Some Horses. New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983.
 * Secrets from the Center of the World (illustrated by Steven Strom). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1989.
 * In Mad Love and War. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1990.
 * Fishing (1992.
 * The Woman Who Fell From the Sky. New York, NY: Norton, 1994.
 * A Map to the Next World: Poetry and Tales. Norton, 2000.
 * How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2001. Norton, 2002.

Edited

 * Reinventing the Enemy's Language: North American Native Women's Writing, Norton, 1997.
 * The Good Luck Cat (children's fiction, illustrated by Paul Lee). SanDiego, Ca: Harcourt, 2000.

Also author of the film script Origin of Apache Crown Dance, Silver Cloud Video, 1985; coauthor of the film script The Beginning, Native American Broadcasting Consortium; author of television plays, including We Are One, Uhonho, 1984, Maiden of Deception Pass, 1985, I Am Different from My Brother, 1986, and The Runaway, 1986.

Joy Harjo

 * "Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears" (2010)
 * "Winding Through the Milky Way" (2008)
 * "She Had Some Horses" (2006)
 * "Native Joy for Real" (2004)

Joy Harjo and Poetic Justice

 * Letter From the End of the Twentieth Century (1997)