Edwina and Charles Milner Women in the Arts featuring Joy Harjo Co-Sponsor: Western Institute for Lifelong Learning (WILL) Meet Indigenous Poet & Memoirist Joy Harjo. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Joy Harjo is an internationally known poet, writer, performer, and saxophone player of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. She is often cited as playing a formidable role in the second wave of what critic Kenneth Lincoln termed the Native American Renaissance of the late 20th century. She is the author of such books as Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (2015), Crazy Brave (2012), and How We Became Humans: New and Selected Poems 1975 - 2002 (2004). She has released five award-winning CD’s of original music and in 2009 won a Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist of the Year. She is the recipient if the PEN USA Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the Wallace Stevens Award for Poetry.