About Lisa Katz

Translator Lisa Katz: b. NY, in Israel since 1983. Ph.D English, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Tr. The Absolute Reader, chapbook of poems by Miri Ben Simhon, Toad Press 2020; Late Beauty: a bilingual selection of the poetry of Tuvia Ruebner, (with S. Bram) Zephyr Press, September 2017, a Jewish National Book Award Finalist in Poetry. Approaching You in English (with S. Naim-Naor), Zephyr 2011. Look There: poems of Agi Mishol (Graywolf 2006). 2003-2020, editor of the Israeli domain of Poetry International Archives, and 2017-2020, Central English Editor for the Rotterdam site. Author of Are You With Me (Finishing Line 2016) and Reconstruction [in Hebrew] Am Oved Press.