Joy Katz is the author of The Garden Room (Tupelo, 2006) and Fabulae (Southern Illinois University, 2002). Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Notre Dame Review, Ploughshares, and The Cincinnati Review, among other journals. Her awards include a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She teaches in the graduate writing program at the University of Pittsburgh and at Chatham University.  

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