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Joy Katz (b Newark, New Jersey) is an American poet who was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.

She is the author of three poetry collections, most recently All You Do Is Perceive, a National Poetry Series finalist (Four Way Books, 2013), The Garden Room (Tupelo Press, 2006), and Fabulae (Southern Illinois University, 2002). Her work appears in Ploughshares, Gulf Coast,Conduit, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Court Green, and Verse, Slope, The New York Times Book Review, Parnassus, and Prairie Schooner. Katz was raised in Buffalo; Philadelphia; Camden, Maine; and Cincinnati. She earned a B.S. at Ohio State University, an MFA at Washington University in St. Louis, and she held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Katz is an editor-at-large at Pleiades. She teaches poetry workshops at the Chatham University MFA Program in Creative Writing. She married a playwright, Rob Handel, on May 28, 2005, and lives in Pittsburgh.

Honors and awards

• 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry
• 2005 Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Prize
• 2001 Crab Orchard Award
• Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University
• Nadja Aisenberg Fellow at the MacDowell Colony

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

• Fabulae. Southern Illinois University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8093-2444-6. Joy Katz.

Chapbooks

• The Garden Room. Tupelo Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-932195-36-1.

Anthology publications

• Yusef Komunyakaa; David Lehman, eds. (2003). The Best American Poetry. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0387-6.
• Kevin Prufer, ed. (2000). The New Young American Poets. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2308-1.

Anthologies edited

• Joy Katz; Kevin Prufer, eds. (2007). Dark Horses: Poets on Lost Poems. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07287-1.

Review

Don't expect the narratives in Joy Katz's first book to resolve themselves into tidy morals. There's nothing Aesopian about Fabulae. A glance at my Latin dictionary suggests that a more apt translation of the title is "myths," for these unsettling poems conceal and reveal insights more spiritual and unpredictable than aphoristic. They resist easy expectations.

References

1. ^ National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows Archived 2010-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
2. Joy Katz. "Rescue Song". Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts 24.2. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
3. Room, City. "The New York Times - Search". The New York Times.
4. "Project MUSE - Login" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
5. "School of English and Philosophy".
6. "Joy Katz and Rob Handel". The New York Times. May 29, 2005.
7. "Joy Katz".
8. "Tupelo Press - Joy Katz". Archived from the original on 2008-05-12. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
9. "Tupelo Press > Joy Katz Author Page". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
10. SUSAN SETTLEMYRE WILLIAMS (Fall 2003). "Review – Fabulae, by Joy Katz". Blackbird.

External links

• Poem: electronic poetry review 3 > A desk chai by Joy Katz
• Poem: electronic poetry review 3 > Color of the walls by Joy Katz
• Poem: electronic poetry review 3 > How I feel about topiary by Joy Katz

• 1963 births
• Living people
• Writers from Newark, New Jersey
• Poets from New Jersey
• Poets from New York (state)
• Ohio State University alumni
• Washington University in St. Louis alumni
• Stanford University alumni
• The New School faculty
• Chatham University faculty
• American women poets