TULSA, OKLAHOMA | A member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation, Joy Harjo is a critically acclaimed poet, composer, musician, and performance artist. She is the author of eight collections of poetry, including She Had Some Horses and Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, and the memoir Crazy Brave. Harjo has received many honors, such as the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Ruth Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2019, Harjo was named the twenty-third Poet Laureate of the United States and selected as a Tulsa Artist Fellow. joyharjo.com