Judy Katz-Levine was born in Newark, NJ in 1949. She grew up in a musical family, with a grandmother who played stride piano, and musicians who later became top performing world musicians. She attended Simmons College where she studied with Norman Klein. She audited a class taught at MIT by Denise Levertov, befriending Levertov and maintaining a close friendship with her. Katz-Levine has continued to write and publish poetry and prose poems in magazines such as The Sun, The Bitter Oleander, lift, Asylum, Salamander, 96 Inc., Mothering, The Plaza (Japan), a Faber & Faber Anthology - Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend, Stride Anthology (England), Mother Jones, Voices Israel (Israel), Printed Matter (Japan), and many other magazines and anthologies. Her first full-length collection was When The Arms Of Our Dreams Embrace SARU Press International. Her newest collection is Ocarina, published by Tarsier Books, an affiliate of SARU, an international cooperative. Both books are available from Small Press Distribution. She has recently had work in The Delinquent, a new magazine in the United Kingdom. Also a musician, Judy Katz-Levine continues to play jazz flute, sing in a choir. She lives with her husband, an acupuncturist and sax player, and a computer-buff.
