Joy Harjo

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May 09, 1951 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, The United States

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Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, and author of Native American Canadian 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 of Oklahoma 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.

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Muscogee Nation News Column April 2012

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Books by Joy Harjo

Average rating: 4.18 · 1,296 ratings · 98 reviews · 24 distinct works

	She Had Some Horses 4.27 avg rating — 378 ratings — published 1982 — 5 editions	My rating:
	In Mad Love and War 4.14 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems 4.18 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002 4.10 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales 4.13 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writing of North America by Joy Harjo (editor), Gloria Bird (editor), Beth Cuthand (editor) 4.35 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Good Luck Cat by Joy Harjo, Paul Lee (Illustrator) 3.64 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Secrets from the Center of the World by Joy Harjo, Stephen Strom (photographer), Stephen E. Strom (Photographs) 4.00 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1989	My rating:
	The Spiral of Memory: Interviews by Joy Harjo, Laura Coltelli (Editor) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	For a Girl Becoming by Joy Harjo, Mercedes McDonald (Illustrator) 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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“There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.”
― Joy Harjo

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“I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies”
― Joy Harjo, In Mad Love and War

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“I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.”
― Joy Harjo

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