Joy Harjo

The 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States, Joy Harjo served from 2019 to 2022 as the first Native American to hold the position. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she is a poet and musician and a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her collections include She Had Some Horses (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1983) and An American Sunrise (W.W. Norton, 2019). She received the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award in 2015 and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2017.