joy burklund (she/her) is a trans songstress, performer, filmmaker, and theater artist living on unceded lands of the Lenni-Lenape, also known as Philadelphia.

In 2022, after a decade of making theater and film in New York City, she found her way back into songwriting and vocal performance for the first time since playing in a garage band in high school. Between 2022 and 2023, in the winds of several life transitions, she wrote the songs that would become the seeds of her music project.

Summer 2023 brought new collaborations with her original bandmates, Anastasia DeFulgentis, Pansy Lee Erskine, and Ashley Ferrante, who collaborated with joy on bringing the songs to full life in live performances around the Philly DIY and house show circuit. Her debut record Songbouquet began production in Fall 2023 in collaboration with producer Mattie Kimberley Chaya Klauser of Pillow Princess Productions.

In her debut collection of songs, joy harkens to the style, strength, and confident femininity of divas both pop and alt (Céline, Alanis, Nina, Patti) while bringing her own sultry snarl, and knack for cheeky storytelling. Drawing from an expansive stylistic palette, joy blends punk grit and folk softness to tell her story of transformative queer love.