Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, archivist, and the author of five poetry collections, including the forthcoming Maafa. She also curates an archive of griot poetics and a related performance series at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. She has received the Motherwell Prize from Fence, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship in Poetry, a fellowship from the Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Program, a California Book Award, and a Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Grant from Harvard University. She’s currently working on a film commissioned for the Hammer’s 2021 biennial, Made in L.A. 2020: a version, as well as a collection of essays titled Love Is War for Miles and a biography of Abbey Lincoln, in addition to other writing, film, and curatorial projects.