Articles by Harmony Holiday

Harmony is a writer, dancer, archivist 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 LA’s MOCA. She also runs a music and archive venue called 2220arts with several friends, also in 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 Harvard. She’s currently showing a film commissioned for LA’s 2020-21 and working on a collection of essays and a biography of Abbey Lincoln, in addition to other writing, film and curatorial projects.