Author: Joy Harjo

Her caricature on her website is reminiscent of Oscar Wilde's Salome.

In Why we read memoirs by musicians, the writer says its for the the devil that shows up at the beginning and sticks around.

The author's mother did Jitterbug with her as a child.

A little girl played with bees as characters in her stories until a neighbour stopped her by saying "You'll be stung!"

"I believe that if you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned." - Joy Harjo