Harmony Holiday

Harmony Holiday (she/her) is a writer, dancer, archivist, filmmaker. and the author of five collections of poetry including Maafa ( 2022), Hollywood Forever (2017), and Negro League Baseball (2011), all with Fence Books, as well as A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom (Birds, LLC, 2019) and Go Find your Father/A Famous Blues (Ricochet Editions, 2014). 

Holiday curates a standing archive space for griot poetics and a related performance and events series at LA’s music and archive venue 2220. She’s a contributing writer for the Los Angeles Times’ Image magazineand 4Columns. Her work has appeared in TheNew Yorker, Bookforum, Harper’s, The Paris Review, The Drift, and other publications. Holiday’s first solo exhibition, Black Backstage, exploring the aspects of black performance culture that cannot be spectacularized through film, and sound sculpture, opened at The Kitchen in New York in 2024. 

Holiday has been awarded fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, The Robert B. Silvers Foundation, the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library, among other awards for her writing.