Judy Katz’s debut poetry collection, How News Travels, won the 2021 Gerald Cable Book Award and was published by Silverfish Review Press in Summer 2023. Her poems have appeared on Poetry Daily and in The New York Times Book Review, Salamander, The Women’s Review of Books, Plume, upstreet, and other print and online journals.  Katz’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and widely anthologized, appearing in such publications as Best Indie Lit New England, The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review, The Torah: A Women’s Commentary, and Treelines: an anthology of 21st century American poems.  Judy was born and raised in Memphis, TN and graduated from Barnard College with honors.  She received her MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. For many years, Katz worked as a documentary filmmaker and producer of public television. She currently teaches poetry in New York City.