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Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1951 and is an enrolled member of the Creek Tribe. She graduated in 1968 from the Institute of American Indian Arts and from the University of New Mexico in 1976. In 1978 she received an M.E A. in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa. She also completed the filmmaking program at the Anthropology Film Center. Currently a professor of English in the creative writing program at the University of New Mexico, Harjo has received numerous awards, including the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, the American Book Award and two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships.