Harmony Holiday

Harmony is a writer and interdisciplinary artist working across dance, film, music and archives of black culture. She is the author of 5 collections of poetry including Hollywood Forever and Maafa (2022, UK Spring 2025). She curates a standing archive space for griot poetics and a related performance and events series at LA’s music and archive venue 2220arts. She’s a staff writer for LA Times’ Image and 4Columns and has work in New Yorker, Bookforum, Harper’s, Paris Review, The Drift, etc. Her 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, Spring 2024. She ‘s won a 2025 Creative Capital Award as well as fellowships from Poetry Foundation, Silver’s Foundation, The Rabkin Foundation, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, among other awards for her writing. She’s currently working on a biography of Abbey Lincoln for Yale University Press and, a book of memoir and music criticism, and her next collection of poems, among other writing, film, and curatorial projects.