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.