Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo, renowned poet, performer, and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, has served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States. Harjo has written 10 books of poetry, several plays, prose, and children's books, and two memoirs. She has also produced seven award-winning music albums. Her many honors include the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lily Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. "Girl Warrior" is her most recent work.

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Awards: National Book Critics Circle Award, PEN Literary Award, Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Award, Moonbeam Children's Book Award, Bollingen Prize for American Poetry

Communities: Indigenous or Native American

Books:

Girl Warrior

A Coming of Age Handbook
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
W. W. Norton, Incorporated
October 2025
ISBN 9781324094173
176 pages

Washing My Mother's Body

A Ceremony for Grief
Poetry
Random House
April 2025
ISBN 9781984861368
80 pages