Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. She is the author of several poetry collections, memoirs, children’s books, and music albums. She is the recipient of many awards for her creative work, including a National Humanities Medal. She lives in Oklahoma.
Awards
Winner — PEN/Open Book Award, 2002
Winner — Oklahoma Book Award, 2003
Winner — Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award, 2021
Longlisted — ALA Carnegie Medal, 2022
Winner — Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award, 2022
Winner — Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, 2023
Winner — Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award, 2023
Books by Joy Harjo

Poet Warrior: A Memoir
Joy Harjo
Paperback, 2022
Three-term poet laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Joy Harjo, Sandra Cisneros
Hardback, 2022
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet.
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years
Joy Harjo, Sandra Cisneros
E Book, 2022
A magnificent selection of fifty poems to celebrate three-term US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s fifty years as a poet.
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America
Gloria Bird, Joy Harjo
Paperback, 1999
"A collection of important, eloquent, and often mesmerizing writings by American Indian Women. . . . A profoundly moving statement of resilience and renewal."—San Francisco Chronicle
Washita Love Child: The Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis
Douglas K. Miller, Joy Harjo
Hardback, 2024
“I first met Jesse Ed Davis in the late ’80s... [He was a] gentle yet intensely present giant who was a legend of an artist... In Washita Love Child, Jesse Ed Davis is resurrected in story.”—Joy...
Washita Love Child: The Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis
Douglas K. Miller, Joy Harjo
E Book
“I first met Jesse Ed Davis in the late ’80s... [He was a] gentle yet intensely present giant who was a legend of an artist... In Washita Love Child, Jesse Ed Davis is resurrected in story.”—Joy...



