Harmony Holiday is a writer, dancer, archivist, and the author of five collections of poetry including the forthcoming Maafa (Spring 2021). She also curates an archive of griot poetics and a related performance series at the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She has received the Motherwell Prize from Fence Books, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a NYFA fellowship, a Schomburg Fellowship, a California Book Award, and a research fellowship from Harvad’s Woodberry Poetry Room. She’s currently working on a film commissioned for LA’s 2020 biennial Made in LA, and a collection of essays entitled Love is War for Miles and a biography of Abbey Lincoln, in addition to other writing, film, and curatorial projects. Her other titles include A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom; Hollywood Forever; Go Find Your Father/A Famous Blues; Negro League Baseball; and The Black Saint and the Sinnerman, an LP composed of sound and speech that assimilates Charles Mingus's classic 1963 album.