Joy Katz

Joy Katz (b Newark, New Jersey) is an American poet, who was recently awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.^[1]

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,^[2]Conduit, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Court Green, and Verse, Slope, The New York Times Book Review,^[3] Parnassus, and Prairie Schooner.^[4] 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.^[5] She teaches poetry workshops at the Chatham University MFA Program in Creative Writing. She married a playwright, Rob Handel, on May 28, 2005,^[6] and lives in Pittsburgh.^[7][8]

Honors and awards

• 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry^[1]
• 2005 Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Prize^[9]
• 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. 

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.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• 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.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

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.^[10]

References

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