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Danielle
Cadena Deulenyo
Poetry and Essay
Danielle Cadena Deulen is a poet and essayist. Her collection
of poems, Lovely Asunder, won the Miller Williams
Arkansas Poetry Prize and was published with the University
of Arkansas Press in 2011. Her memoir, The Riots,
published with University of Georgia Press in 2011, won
the 2010 AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction, was a finalist
for the 2011 Grub Street National Book Prize in Nonfiction,
and won the 2012 GLCA New Writers Award. Formerly, she
was a Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin
Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Her poetry and essays have appeared in such journals as
The Utne Reader, The Missouri Review, The
Iowa Review, Smartish Pace, and The Indiana
Review. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from
George Mason University and her PhD in English from the
University of Utah. She currently lives in Ohio where she
is an Assistant Professor of poetry in the Graduate Creative
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Joy Harjo
Poetry
Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a member
of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation. Her seven books of poetry
include She Had Some Horses, The Woman Who
Fell From the Sky, and How We Became Human, New
and
Selected Poems. Her poetry has garnered many awards including a Lila Wallace-Reader’s
Digest Award: the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts,
the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers
Circle of the Americas; and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry
Society of America. She has released three award-winning CD’s of original
music and performances: Letter from the End of the Twentieth Century, Native
Joy for Real, and She Had Some Horses. A song from her forthcoming CD, Winding
Through the Milky Way, just won a New Mexico Music Award. She has received
the Eagle Spirit Achievement Award for overall contributions in the arts, from
the American Indian Film Festival and a US Artists Fellowship for 2009. She
performs internationally solo and with her band Joy Harjo and the Arrow Dynamics
Band (for which she sings and plays saxophone and flutes), and premiered a
preview of her one-woman show, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light at
the Public Theater in NYC and will open at the Wells Fargo Theater in LA March
2009. She co-wrote the signature film of the National Museum of the American
Indian, A Thousand Roads. She is a founding board member of the Native Arts
and Cultures Foundation. Harjo writes a column “Comings and Goings” for
her tribal newspaper, the Muscogee Nation News. She lives in Honolulu, Hawai’i
where she is a member of the Hui Nalu Canoe Club and in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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