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 Ar...