Harmony Holiday
DOWN IN THE VALLEY
HARMONY HOLIDAY is a writer, dancer, archivist, and filmmaker. Her five poetry collections include Hollywood Forever and Maafa. She has 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 curates an archive of griot poetics and a related performance series at 2220arts in L.A., and is at work on an essay collection for Duke University Press and a biography of Abbey Lincoln.
ISSUE ELEVEN features poetry by José A. Alcántara, Hadara Bar-Nadav, Monica Berlin, Joel Brouwer, Julia Cohen, Timothy Donnelly, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Robert Fernandez, Nick Flynn, Wendy Guerra, Chelsea Harlan, Brian Henry, Harmony Holiday, David Kirby, Ginger Ko, Virginia Konchan, Joseph O. Legaspi, Shane McCrae, Daniel Poppick, Danniel Schoonebeek, Matthew Tuckner, Genya Turovskaya, and Corey Van Landingham; fiction by Josh Bell, Ed Park, and Tom Quach; nonfiction by Albert Abonado, Mary Quade, Sarah Anne Strickley, and Jennifer Tseng; a film essay by J. M. Tyree; and Harmony Holiday in conversation with Sandra Simonds.