Joy Ladin

Joy Ladin is on leave from Stern College of Yeshiva University, where she holds the David and Ruth Gottesman Chair in English. Her first book of poetry, Alternatives to History, was published by Sheep Meadow in 2003; Sheep Meadow published her second, The Book of Anna, a novel-like combination of poetry and prose, this past spring, and will soon bring out her third, Transmigration. Joy's poems have appeared in many periodicals, including Parnassus: Poetry in Review, for which she is a regular reviewer. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, and a nomination for Pushcart Prize in Poetry. She is currently finishing up a new book of poetry, Coming to Life, and writing a book of autobiographical essays called Inside Out: Confessions of a Woman Caught in the Act of Becoming. Joy will be the featured poet in this spring's Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin, and has essays coming out in the Southwest Review, the Robert Frost Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and The King's English.