2013 PEN Literary Award
Joy Harjo wins in Creative Nonfiction for Crazy Brave at 2013 PEN Literary Awards!
Winners: http://www.penusa.org/literary-award-winners
Crazy Brave wins at 2013 American Book Awards Before Columbus Foundation
The American Book Awards were created to provide recognition for outstanding literary achievement from the entire spectrum of America's diverse literary community. The purpose of the awards is to recognize literary excellence without limitations or restrictions.
http://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/
http://www.iaia.edu/news/iaia-alumni-receive-american-book-awards/
Joy Harjo is one of seven artists selected for the Sundance Institute 2013 Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation, February 4-22, 2013.
2011 Mvskoke Women’s Leadership Award
2009 NAMMY Native American Music Award
2009 Eagle Spirit Achievement Award
For her overall contributions in the arts, from the American Indian Film Festival and a US Artists Fellowship for 2009
2009 New Mexico Music Awards
Joy Harjo wins in 2 categories.
In 1987, a number of recording industry professionals set out to achieve cooperation among recording studios and other industry professionals in order to create a climate of professionalism and artistic excellence within the New Mexico music community.
The result was the New Mexico Music Industry Coalition (now the New Mexico Music Awards) This awards program recognizes excellence for recorded music from the previous calendar year for original music productions recorded and mixed primarily within the state of New Mexico. Find out more
AirTrain USA
Joy Harjo is one of 100 poets asked to participate in Artrain. Traveling to communities across the United States, Artrain USA is “America’s Hometown Art Museum.” A nonprofit organization, Artrain USA’s mission is to enrich lives and build communities through the arts. Artrain USA brings world class art exhibitions and art education programs to communities and their residents and delivers exceptional opportunities for learning, growth and art appreciation while encouraging the development of local cultural programs and organizations. http://www.artrainusa.org
Joy Harjo awarded $50,000 Fellowship
Joy Harjo has been named United States Artists Rasmuson Fellows and will each receive a $50,000 grant in recognition of their cultural contributions.
They are among 50 recipients of United States Artists Rasmuson Fellowships for 2008, totaling $2.5 million. The grants recognize and reward a wide range of creativity — in the fields of architecture and design, crafts and traditional arts, dance, literature, media arts, music, theater arts and visual arts.
All 50 awardees were honored at a celebration at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.
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2005 Writer of the Year
Awarded by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers for the script for
A Thousand Roads, 2005, made for the National Museum of the American Indian.
2003-2004 Writer of the Year - Poetry
Awarded for How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001 (book)
2003-2004 Storyteller of the Year
Awarded for Native Joy for Real (CD) by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers.
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of The Americas.
2003 Arrell Gibson Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Oklahoma Center
Awarded for How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001 (Book)
2003 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry
Awarded for How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2001 (Book)
1998 Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award
Awarded For Reinventing the Enemy's Language
1995 Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry.
Awarded for The Woman Who Fell From the Sky
2001 Writer of the Year/Children's Books
Awarded by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers for her book
The Good Luck Cat.
1998 Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Writer's Award
To work with the nonprofit group Atlatl to bring literary resources to the Native American community.
1997 New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts
Musical Artist of the Year for 1996-1997
For the CD, Poetic Justice, from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers.
Mad Love and War wins at 1991 American Book Awards
Before Columbus Foundation
Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award
1991 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America
Awarded for the best book of poetry
1991 Oakland PEN, Josephine Miles Poetry Award
1996 Bravo Award from the Albuquerque Arts Alliance
1995 Oklahoma Book Award
Awarded for The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
1994 Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship
1993 The Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at Green Mountain College in Poultney, VT
Honorary Doctorate from Benedictine College in 1992
National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships in 1992 and 1978
1991 Received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University
1990 The American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award
1989 Arizona Commission on the Arts Poetry Fellowship
1987 NEH Summer Stipend in American Indian Literature and Verbal Arts
The University of Arizona
