Joy Katz in an American writer and poet. Trained in industrial design, she worked as a graphic designer for a decade before beginning to write. Her collections include; All You Do is Perceive, a National Poetry Series finalist and a Stahlecker Selection at Four Way Books; The Garden Room; Fabulae; and two chapbooks, Which From That Time and White: An Abstract.
Since 2015, Katz has collaborated in the activist art collective Ifyoureallyloveme, using word, music, and performance to create social change in American cities. Her work has been honored by the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Pittsburgh Foundation, and the NEA. She is a former Stegner Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, and Raveel Fellow at Dickinson House in Belgium. She has been a distinguished visiting writer at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Wichita and a professor at NYU, Columbia, and The New School. She currently teaches off the tenure track in Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic workshops for women, is a professor in Chatham University’s M.F.A. program, and is an editor-at-large for Copper Nickel.
