About Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She served as the 23rd United States poet laureate from 2019 to 2022, the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms. Harjo is a seventh-generation Monahwee daughter. Additionally, Harjo is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv. She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late 20th century. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts, completed her undergraduate degree at University of New Mexico in 1976, and earned an MFA degree at the University of Iowa in its creative writing program.
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Awards & Honors
American Book Awards
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Robert Frost Medal
Guggenheim Fellowship
National Humanities Medal
National Women's Hall of Fame
Wallace Stevens Award
PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award
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honorary doctorate of the Bordeaux Montaigne University
Harper Lee Award
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
