Joy Katz

Joy Katz is the author of three poetry collections, most recently All You Do Is Perceive (Four Way Books), a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her work in progress, The Color Cure, documents every minute of whiteness in her life. A trans-racial adoptive mom, she also writes nonfiction covering adoption, tennis, and cities. Honors for her work include National Endowment for the Arts, Barbara Deming Foundation, and Stegner fellowships; as a Writing Pittsburgh fellow, she was writer in residence at Grasso Sausage, the last Italian business in Larimer, Pa. She collaborates in the social practice art collective IfYouReallyLoveMe.org, whose last project was live music for shift workers, and teaches off the tenure track in Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops for women.