{{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.<ref name="NEA">[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 }}</ref>
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 ''The Paris Review'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Gulf Coast'',<ref>{{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}}</ref>''Conduit'', ''Barrow Street'', ''Colorado Review'', ''Court Green'', and ''Verse'', ''Slope'', ''The New York Times Book Review'',<ref>{{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 }}</ref> ''Parnassus'', and ''Prairie Schooner''.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ucmo.edu/englphil/pleiades/editors.html | title=School of English and Philosophy}}</ref> She teaches poetry workshops at the Chatham University MFA Program in Creative Writing. She married a playwright, Rob Handel, on May 28, 2005,<ref>{{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 }}</ref> and lives in Pittsburgh.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.pw.org/content/%5Btitle%5D_4391 | title=Joy Katz}}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref>
==Honors and awards== * 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry<ref name="NEA" /> * 2005 Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Prize<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tupelopress.org/authors/katz |title=Tupelo Press > Joy Katz Author Page |access-date=2010-03-14 |archive-date=2011-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720113620/http://www.tupelopress.org/authors/katz |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 2001 Crab Orchard Award * Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University * Nadja Aisenberg Fellow at the MacDowell Colony
==Published works== '''Full-length poetry collections''' *{{cite book| title=Fabulae | publisher=Southern Illinois University Press| year=2002| url=https://archive.org/details/fabulae0000katz| url-access=registration | quote=Joy Katz. | isbn=978-0-8093-2444-6 }} '''Chapbooks''' *{{cite book| title=The Garden Room | publisher=Tupelo Press| year=2006| isbn=978-1-932195-36-1 }}
'''Anthology publications''' * {{cite book| title=The Best American Poetry |editor=Yusef Komunyakaa |editor2=David Lehman| publisher=Simon & Schuster| year=2003| isbn=978-0-7432-0387-6| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/bestamericanpoet00yuse}} * {{cite book| title=The New Young American Poets| editor=Kevin Prufer| publisher=Southern Illinois University Press| year=2000| isbn=978-0-8093-2308-1 }}
'''Anthologies edited''' * {{cite book| title=Dark Horses: Poets on Lost Poems |editor=Joy Katz |editor2=Kevin Prufer| publisher=University of Illinois Press| year=2007| isbn=978-0-252-07287-1| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780252072871}}
==Review== <blockquote>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.<ref>{{cite journal| url=http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v2n2/nonfiction/williams_ss/katz.htm| author=SUSAN SETTLEMYRE WILLIAMS| title=Review – Fabulae, by Joy Katz| journal=Blackbird| date=Fall 2003 }} </ref></blockquote>
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==External links== * [http://www.epoetry.org/issues/issue3/text/poems/jk1.html Poem: ''electronic poetry review 3'' > ''A desk chai'' by Joy Katz] * [http://www.epoetry.org/issues/issue3/text/poems/jk2.html Poem: ''electronic poetry review 3'' > ''Color of the walls'' by Joy Katz] * [http://www.epoetry.org/issues/issue3/text/poems/jk3.html Poem: ''electronic poetry review 3'' > ''How I feel about topiary'' by Joy Katz]
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