Joy Katz (b Newark, New Jersey) is an American poet who was 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 edit
- 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 edit
Full-length poetry collections
- Fabulae. Southern Illinois University Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-8093-2444-6.
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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 edit
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 edit
- ^ a b National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows Archived 2010-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Joy Katz. "Rescue Song". Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts 24.2. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
- ^ Room, City. "The New York Times - Search". The New York Times.
- ^ "Project MUSE - Login" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
- ^ "School of English and Philosophy".
- ^ "Joy Katz and Rob Handel". The New York Times. May 29, 2005.
- ^ "Joy Katz".
- ^ "Tupelo Press - Joy Katz". Archived from the original on 2008-05-12. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
- ^ "Tupelo Press > Joy Katz Author Page". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
- ^ SUSAN SETTLEMYRE WILLIAMS (Fall 2003). "Review – Fabulae, by Joy Katz". Blackbird.