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Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Joy Harjo studied at the University of New Mexico
and received an MFA from the University of Iowa. Her rich multicultural
lineage--Harjo's mother was part Cherokee, French, and Irish; her father
was Creek--figures in her poetry, which explores the relationship between
past and present, humans in their communities, and the many aspects of
the self.
A saxophonist with the jazz band Poetic Justice, whose latest
CD is entitled " Letter from the End of the 21st Century," her books
include She Had Some Horses (1983), In Mad Love and War (1990), The
Woman Who Fell from the Sky (1996), and, released early this year, A
Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales. Harjo received the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the Native Writer's Circle of the Americas and
lives in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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