November 11

JOY HARJO, a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, has published five books of poetry, including She Had Some Horses, In Mad Love and War, and The Woman Who Fell From the Sky. She also wrote Secrets from the Center of the World in collaboration with photographer/astronomer Stephen Strom, and a collection of interviews, The Spiral of Memory. She is co-editor of Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America. Harjo has three books forthcoming-The Goodluck Cat, a children's book; A Love Supreme, a book of personal essays; and a book of poetry, A Map to the Next World, from which she will read, with other work, at Seton Hall.

Joy Harjo was the narrator for The Native Americans series on TBS and more recently, Navajo Codetalkers for National Geographic, which won an Emmy. She performs nationally and internationally with her band Poetic Justice, for which she plays the saxophone.

Of Reinventing the Enemy's Language, Alice Walker wrote, "[It] is a book I have been yearning for all my life. I sat before a blazing fire, reading this gift: enthralled, enchanted, in tears, in happiness and hope for four days."

Joy Harjo received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.