Books

GENDER

Persea Books

Once Out of Nature

2024

Selected essays on the transformation of gender.

Who’s talking about Once Out of Nature:

“Diving into the Wreck: Trans and Anti-Trans Feminism” by Jill Filipovic

Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders

2012 National Jewish Book Award Finalist, Forward Fives Award winner; U. of Wisconsin Press

POETRY

Persea Books

Family

2024

Advanced praise for Family:

Review by Publishers Weekly

Impersonation (Doubleback Books 2022)

Shekhinah Speaks (selva oscura 2022)

  • Review by Lilith (Susan Schnur)

The Book of Anna. Revised second edition, with a new Afterword by the author. (2021; EOAGH Books)

  • National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, 2021

The Future is Trying to Tell Us Something: New and Selected Poems (2017; Sheep Meadow Press)

Fireworks in the Graveyard (2017; Headmistress Press)

“Answers to the Name of `Lucky’” (2016; book chapter; Delphi Series #2, Blue Lyra Press)

Impersonation (2015; finalist, Lambda Literary Award; Sheep Meadow Press)

The Definition of Joy (2012; Sheep Meadow Press)

Coming to Life (2010; Forward Fives Award winner; Sheep Meadow Press)

Psalms (2010; Wipf & Stock)

Transmigration (2009; Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Forward Fives Award winner; Sheep Meadow Press)

The Book of Anna (2006; Sheep Meadow Press)

Alternatives to History (2003; Sheep Meadow Press)

MEMOIR

TRANS THEOLOGY

The Soul of the Stranger: Reading God and Torah from a Transgender Perspective (Brandeis UP 2018)

DISSERTATION

Soldering the Abyss: Emily Dickinson and Modern American Poetry

3 responses to “Books”

  1. Laura DeMarco Osborne Avatar
    Laura DeMarco Osborne

    Joy, Thank you for advice on “giving voice to the divine” during the recent IWWG seminar on May 31st. I am so glad that you elected to survive, and I enjoyed your memoir journey. Sincerely, Laura Osborne

    1. joyladin Avatar

      Thank you so much, Laura! So glad you were there! Best, Joy

    2. joyladin Avatar

      You are so welcome!

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