Joy Harjo was born in 1951 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and part of the Muscogee (Cree) Nations. She is a poet, playwrite, musician and author. She served three temrs as the 23rd poet lauraate of the United States (2019-2022) and in 2023, she won Yale's Bollinger Prize for American Poetry. Harjo delivered the 2021 Windham-Campbell Lecture at Yale. She has also won many other awards. As a poet, Harjo has written ten books, several plays and childrens book, two memoirs and numerous poems, including her newest release a poem for young listeners titled Remember. As a musician, she has produced seven award-winner albums, including I Pray for my Enimies and Winding through the milky way. At 71, Harjo is still writting and composing and is the chancellor of the Academy of American Poets among many of the other roles she has.