Author
Lisa Katz
Lisa Katz is an author and translator who holds a PhD in English from Hebrew University. Her books include Are You with Me (Finishing Line) and Reconstruction [in Hebrew] (Am Oved). Her translated works include So Many Things Are Yours: selected poems of Admiel Kosman; a chapbook, The Absolute Reader: Miri Ben Simhon (Toad Press, 2020); and Late Beauty: a bilingual selection of the poetry of Tuvia Ruebner (with S. Bram) Zephyr Press (2017), a Jewish National Book Award finalist. She has lived in Israel since 1983.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Features
Jul 26 2023
Translators in Body and Soul
Translators in Body and Soul Lisa Katz Fifty Sounds: A Memoir of Language, Learning, and Longing by Polly Barton. Liveright, 2022, 384 pp., $27.95 (hardcover). Homesick: A Memoir by Jennifer… read more
Reviews
Aug 18 2021
Intersectionality and Identity: Four Recent Women’s Memoirs
Four Memoirs Lisa Katz Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey. Ecco Press, 2020, 224 pp., $16.99 (paper). Terroir: Love, Out of Place by Natasha Sajé. Trinity University Press, 2020, 207… read more