Joy Katz (b Newark, New Jersey) is an American poet who was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.
[1] 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,[2]Conduit, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Court Green, and Verse, Slope, The New York Times Book Review,[3] Parnassus, and Prairie Schooner.
[5] She teaches poetry workshops at the Chatham University MFA Program in Creative Writing.
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.