Joyce Greenberg Lott

Joyce Lott grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She attended Wellesley College for one year, then left to marry and have children. When all her children were school age, she moved with her family to Princeton, New Jersey, where she attended Douglass College. After graduating, she went on to receive a Masters from Rutgers University. She divorced and began teaching, then wrote her first book, A Teacher’s Stories: Reflections on High School Writers about her experiences. She joined the poets' collective Cool Women and began to publish essays and poetry. She remarried, and after twenty years, her husband died. She published her first book of poetry, Dear Mrs. Dalloway, a short time later. She is currently retired from teaching and continues to write and publish poetry.