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Joy Katz

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

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'',''Conduit'', ''Barrow Street'', ''Colorado Review'', ''Court Green'', and ''Verse'', ''Slope'', ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''Parnassus'', and ''Prairie Schooner''. 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''. She teaches poetry workshops at the Chatham University MFA Program in Creative Writing. She married a playwright, Rob Handel, on May 28, 2005, and lives in Pittsburgh. Provided by Wikipedia