Harjo, Joy

Harjo, Joy

▪ American author, academic, musician and artist
born May 9, 1951, Tulsa, Okla., U.S.

      American poet, writer, academic, musician, and Native American activist.

      An enrolled member of the Creek tribe, Harjo was the daughter of a Creek father and a Cherokee-French mother. A graduate of the Universities of New Mexico (B.A., 1976) and Iowa (M.F.A., 1978), she taught at several American colleges and universities, including, from 1990, the University of New Mexico.

      Harjo used Native American symbolism, imagery, history, and ideas set within a universal context. Her poetry also deals with social and personal issues, notably feminism, and with music, particularly jazz. Harjo's third book of poetry, She Had Some Horses (1983), weaves prayer-chants and animal imagery into her poems. The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, a collection of poetry published in 1994, is concerned with the opposing forces of creation and destruction in modern society. Her other poetry collections include The Last Song (1975), What Moon Drove Me to This? (1979), Secrets from the Center of the World (1989; prose poetry, with photographs by Stephen Strom), In Mad Love and War (1990), and Fishing (1993).

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