Education
She earned a Bachelor of Surgery at Ohio State University, an Master of Fine Arts at Washington University in Saint Louis, and she held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.
She earned a Bachelor of Surgery at Ohio State University, an Master of Fine Arts at Washington University in Saint Louis, and she held a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.
Her work appears in Ploughshares, Gulf Coast,Conduit, Barrow Street, Colorado, Court Green, and Verse, Slope, The New York Times Book, Parnassus, and Prairie Schooner. Katz was raised in Buffalo. Philadelphia; Camden, Maine.
And Cincinnati.
Katz is an editor-at-large at Pleiades. She teaches poetry workshops at the Chatham University Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry Don"t expect the narratives in Joy Katz"s first book to resolve themselves into tidy morals.
There"s nothing Aesopian about 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.