# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joy-harjo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:04:50.555Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joy-harjo"
name: "Joy Harjo"
slug: "joy-harjo"
description: "Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She served as the 23rd United States poet laureate from 2019 to 2022, the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to have served three terms. Harjo is a seventh-generation Monahwee daughter. Additionally, Harjo is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and belongs to Oce Vpofv. She is an important figure in the second wave of the literary Native American Renaissance of the late 20th century. She studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts, completed her undergraduate degree at University of New Mexico in 1976, and earned an MFA degree at the University of Iowa in its creative writing program."
tagline: "American Poet Laureate"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joy_Harjo_at_National_Book_Festival_2025.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951-05-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.46
  momentum:             0.1515151515151515
  historical:           20.169812
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/joyharjoforreal/"
    handle:    "joyharjoforreal"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.joyharjo.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1764331"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "جوي هارجو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%89_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "جوى هارجو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%DB%8C_%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "جوی هارو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Joy Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Joy Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Joy Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Joy Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Joy Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Joy Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Joy Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Joy Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Joy Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%99_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%92'%D7%95"
    title: "ג'וי הרג'ו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%AF%E1%83%9D%E1%83%98_%E1%83%B0%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%AF%E1%83%9D"
    title: "ჯოი ჰარჯო"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B0%EC%9D%B4_%ED%95%98%EC%A1%B0"
    title: "조이 하조"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8F%D0%BE%D1%98_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%9F%D0%BE"
    title: "Џој Харџо"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Joy Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Joy Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Joy Harjo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%92_%DB%81%D8%B1%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "جوائے ہرجو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://et.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joy_Harjo"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8bae7ec5-3390-4259-ae9a-7c7c4409cc36"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q292180"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump