Harmony Holiday

About

Harmony Holiday is a writer, a dancer, an archivist, a filmmaker, and the author of five collections of poetry, including Hollywood Forever and Maafa. She curates an archive of griot poetics and a related performance series at L.A.’s music and archive venue 2220 Arts. Harmony writes for the Los Angeles Times’s Image magazine, 4Columns, and the New Yorker, among other publications. She received the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a NYFA fellowship, a Schomburg Fellowship, a California Book Award, a research fellowship from Harvard, and a teaching fellowship from UC Berkeley. She's currently working on a collection of essays for Duke University Press and a bi- ography of Abbey Lincoln.