Joy Harjo is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001. She has also co-edited an anthology of contemporary Native women’s writing, Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Native Women’s Writing of North America, and she wrote the award-winning children’s book, The Good Luck Cat. Her poetry awards include the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Book Awards; the Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award; a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Award; the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas; and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Harjo’s first music CD, Letter from the End of the 20th Century, was released in 1997, and her latest, Winding Through the Milky Way, will be released in August of this year. She was also the narrator for the television series The Native Americans series and for the Emmy Award-winning show Navajo Codetalkers. She is a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. For more information, visit www.joyharjo.com.