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Description: Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a member of the Mvskoke Nation. She is a Poet, Musician, and Playwright. She has 14 books of poetry and five award-winning CDs.

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The author of ten books of poetry, including the highly acclaimed, Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years , several plays and children's books, and two memoirs, Crazy Brave and Poet Warrior , 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, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Harjo delivered the 2021 Windham-Campbell Lecture at Yale, part of the virtual Windham-Campbell Prize Festival that year. That lecture was the basis for Catching the Light , published in 2022 by Yale University Press in the Why I Write series.

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