Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author who served as the 23rd United States poet laureate from 2019 to 2022. A citizen of the Muscogee Nation, she is recognized as a key figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance. Harjo holds degrees from the University of New Mexico and the University of Iowa, and she was the first Native American to hold the position of poet laureate.