Joy Katz

{{short description|American poet}}

Joy Katz (b Newark, New Jersey) is an American poet who was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.[http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/11grants/litFellows.php National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127065351/http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/11grants/litFellows.php |date=2010-11-27 }}

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,{{cite web|url=http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=2&si=47&s=2940 |title=Rescue Song |author=Joy Katz |publisher=Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts 24.2 |accessdate=2012-06-27}}Conduit, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Court Green, and Verse, Slope, The New York Times Book Review,{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch?date_select=full&query=Joy+Katz&type=nyt&x=13&y=6 | work=The New York Times | first=City | last=Room| title=The New York Times - Search }} Parnassus, and Prairie Schooner.{{Cite web |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fprairie_schooner%2Fv079%2F79.3katz.pdf |title=Project MUSE - Login |access-date=2022-02-07 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055018/http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=%2Fjournals%2Fprairie_schooner%2Fv079%2F79.3katz.pdf |url-status=dead }} 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.ucmo.edu/englphil/pleiades/editors.html | title=School of English and Philosophy}} She teaches poetry workshops at the Chatham University MFA Program in Creative Writing. She married a playwright, Rob Handel, on May 28, 2005,{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/29/fashion/weddings/29katz.html?pagewanted=print| title=Joy Katz and Rob Handel | work=The New York Times| date=May 29, 2005 }} and lives in Pittsburgh.{{cite web | url=http://www.pw.org/content/%5Btitle%5D_4391 | title=Joy Katz}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.tupelopress.org/katz.shtml |title=Tupelo Press - Joy Katz |access-date=2009-07-15 |archive-date=2008-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512223707/http://www.tupelopress.org/katz.shtml |url-status=dead }}