Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo ( born May 9, 1951 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American musician and author.

Biography

She is a member of the Muskogee - people. Your choice of musical talent they might have from their ancestors, for they were among other artists. After school, she studied art and theater. But later, she began to write poetry. In Denver, she played in a band. Joy Harjo wanted to learn to sing and so they combined jazz and rock with her ​​poems.

Her poems she sent to various newspapers such as Massachusetts Review, The Bloomsbury Review, American Voice, Kenyon Review, Beloit Poetry Review, Greenfield Review and Puerto del Sol.

From 1980 to 1995 she worked at various universities as a lecturer, professor or assisting a professor. She currently teaches at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Bibliography

• Reinventing the Enemy 's Language: Contemporary Native Women 's Writing of North America, WW Norton & Company 1998
• Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales, WW Norton & Company 2001