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by W.C. Bamberger
About Steve Katz
Steve Katz published ANTONELLO’S LION with Green Integer Press in 2005. This book follows after a hiatus of ten years his America Award winning SWANNY’S WAYS.
Steve has written and published continuously since the self-published novella, THE LESTRIAD in 1962. His books have appeared from Holt, Random House, Knopf, Ithaca House, Sun & Moon, Bamberger Books. This new novel will affirm the assessment of William Bamberger (Bamberger Books) that Steve is the most important living American novelist. He’s living! He has written and published poetry, has done screenplays, and has made several short poem/films. A new book of short pieces, KISSSSS, is ready for publication, and he has just completed IN THE HOUSE OF THE WHALES, a romantic novel set on Cape Breton Island.
Steve was born in the Bronx, and has never not been a Yankee fan. He grew up in Washington Heights. As a short, plump kid he played baseball and basketball for the New York Bullets SAC. Later in life he became a pretty good four-wall handball nut. He has lived in Ithaca, New York; Buckskin, Nevada; Lecce and Verona, Italy; Pine Bush, New York; Eugene, Oregon; South Bland, Indiana; Soho in Manhattan; Boulder, Colorado; and now lives in Denver.
Steve’s three sons have given him six grandchildren, one living in NYC, two in Portland, Oregon and three in New Mexico, near his ex-wife, Pat, writer of the monumental cookbook, The Craft Of The Country Cook.
Steve was one of the founders of Fiction Collective. He started the short-lived PIIF (Projects In Innovative Fiction) with Walter Abish, Clarence Major, and Michael Stephens. The critic, Jerome Klinkowitz, says he “…pushed innovation farther than any of his contemporaries.” He taught Creative Writing and literature at Cornell University, Brooklyn College, Queens College, The University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, The University of Notre Dame, and The University of Colorado in Boulder, from which he retired in 2003.
Steve currently lives in Denver, Colorado where he will not ski, nor rock climb, and has put away his bike. He continues to study and practice Chinese internal martial arts, and occasionally schmoozes at Pablo’s coffee shop down on the corner, just across Sixth.
