Joy Rosenberg moved to California in 2000 after a young life on the east coast. Her poems and short stories have appeared in print in The Free Venice Beachhead and in the literary magazine You. Her work has also appeared online at the N.J.-based Spiral Bridge Writers Guild, and at Los Angeles Poet Society, where she was the winner of the 2016 Women's Poetry Month contest. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in religion from Wellesley College and a Master of Professional Writing from the University of Southern California. She teaches in Los Angeles public schools and lives at the beach with her husband and daughter.