Marilyn Ogus Katz is an author based in New York City. Her stories have been published in numerous journals, including the Tupolo Quarterly and Hadassah Magazine. Her short story, Life List, was a winner of Writer's Digest best short shorts competition in 2015. A new collection of stories, A Few Small Stones, is due out in 2018 (Unsolicited Press). She is completing the final revisions on her novel, The Old City. It follows one of the characters in A Few Small Stones back to Eastern Europe in 1939-1940 where he and his family are caught between Hitler and Stalin. Katz served as the Dean of Studies and Student Life at Sarah Lawrence College for almost twenty years, and continued on as consultant to the president.