Are You with Me

About the author

Lisa Katz, (b. New York, in Israel since 1983), is editor of the Israeli pages of the Rotterdam-based Poetry International Web, http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/country/recent_list/12 and the author of Shikhzur (Reconstruction), a book of her poems translated from English into Hebrew, (Am Oved Press, Tel Aviv, 2008).
An occasional book reviewer for the English edition of the daily Haaretz newspaper, she has translated books of selected works by Israeli poets Tuvia Ruebner (Late Beauty forthcoming from Zephyr in 2016), Admiel Kosman (Approaching You in English Zephyr, 2011) and Agi Mishol (Look There Graywolf, 2006).

Katz served as a lecturer in literary translation at Hebrew University, where she received her doctorate on the poetry of Sylvia Plath, https://www.academia.edu/11316748/What_Sylvia_Plath_Said_about_History_and_Womens_Lives and most recently at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Her translation of "I have never needed God" by Israeli poet Miri Ben Simhon (1950-1996) appeared in Poetry in 2016.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Katz
• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.09.2016
• EAN: 9781635340204
• ISBN: 978-1-63534-020-4
• No. of pages: 38
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 63 g
• Series: New Women's Voices; New Women's Voices Series
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama