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’s a staff writer for LA Times’ Image and 4Columns and has work in New Yorker, Bookforum, Harper’s, Paris Review, The Drift, and more. 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. Her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles will open at Redcat in spring of 2026.