Steve Katz Bibliography Poems Readings/Workshop Availability ... Home Biography Steve Katz was born in May of 1935, in the Bronx. He has never not been a Yankee fan. Then some kid with a stiletto stabbed his basketball in Washington Heights, and that was The Exagggerations of Peter Prince, The Lestriad in Lecce, Italy, a novella of immense innovation, recently reprinted by Bamberger Books. Meanwhile he was living his life, three great kids and a great wife. He lived it in Eugene, Oregon, in Winnemucca, Nevada, in Lecce, Italy, and in Verona, Italy, in Ithaca, New York, in New York City; and he worked for the forest service, and in a mercury mine, and as many different kinds of waiters, and construction work, and bartender and other things, and then he started teaching, which was subversive, because school always made him uncomfortable, and he had never been good at student life. He lives now in Denver, Colorado, retired from teaching at the University of Colorado. And he has studied Chinese internal martial arts, and he still does, so he knows how to hurt himself. And he published Saw at Alfred Knopf, a sci-fi swat team of a novel that demonstrates how a hippopotamus evades an astronaut, safe sex with a sphere, and how oblivion comes when a cylinder's on the loose. And as a Fiction Collective pioneer he published | |
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