Joy Ladin
New York, United States
Member Since: 09/13/2012
Joy Ladin has long worked at the tangled intersection of literature and transgender identity, publishing a memoir of gender transition, National Jewish Book Award finalist Through the Door of Life; a groundbreaking book-length work of trans theology, Lambda Literary and Triangle Award finalist, The Soul of the Stranger; and ten books of poetry, including Lambda Literary finalists Transmigration and Impersonation and National Jewish Book Award winner The Book of Anna. Two new books, Once Out of Nature, essays on how gender is changing, and her eleventh collection of poems, Family, are forthcoming from Persea in 2024. Her writing has been recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, an American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship, and a Hadassah Brandeis Institute Research Fellowship, among other honors. A nationally recognized speaker on trans identity, Ladin has been featured on a number of NPR programs, including an “On Being” with Krista Tippett interview that has been rebroadcast several times. Her writing is available at joyladin.wordpress.com.
Website: joyladin.com
Twitter Username: @joyladin
Publications
- Once Out of Nature: Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender , Persea (August 2024)
- Family , Persea (August 2024)
- Shekhinah Speaks , selva oscura press (2022)
- Through the Door of Life: a Jewish Journey Between Genders , U. of Wisconsin Press (2012)
- The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective , Brandeis UP (2018)
- Impersonation: Poems 2004-2014 , Double Back (February 2023)
- The Definition of Joy , Sheep Meadow Press (2012)
- Coming to Life , Sheep Meadow Press (2010)
- Psalms , Wipf & Stock (2010)
- Transmigration , Sheep Meadow Press (2009)
- The Book of Anna , Sheep Meadow Press (2006)
- Alternatives to History , Sheep Meadow Press (2003)
- The Future is Trying to Tell Us Something: New and Selected Poems , Sheep Meadow Press (2017)
Awards
- National Jewish Book Award for Poetry(2022)
- National Jewish Book Award finalist (memoir)(2012)
- Forward Fives Award (non-fiction)(2012)
- “Continuing the Legacy of Stonewall” Award(2012)
- Forward Fives Award (poetry)(2010)
- Lambda Literary Award finalist(2009)
Employment
- Director, Beren Writing Center at Yeshiva University (September 2003 - )
- Gottesman Professor of English at Yeshiva University (September 2003 - )
Degrees
- Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College (May 1982)
- Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from U. of Massachusetts (Amherst) (May 1995)
- Doctoral Degree in American Poetry and Poetics from Princeton University (May 2000)
Genres of Interest
Creative nonfiction, Poetry