Steve Katz was born in the Bronx, New York City in May 1935. He received his Bachelors degree at Cornell University and his Masters degree at the University of Oregon. He has taught at the University of Maryland Overseas (Italy), Cornell University, the University of Iowa, Brooklyn College, Queens College, City University of New York, and Notre Dame University. In 1978 he became the director of the creative writing program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Katz has also worked as a miner, a dairy farmer, and a teacher of Tai Chi Chuan. He received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1976 and 1981. Steve Katz Biography - Critical Studies:, Steve Katz comments:

The Lestriad (1962 Milella, reprint 1987 Bamberger Books)The Weight of Antony (poetry) (1964 Eibe Press)The Exagggerations of Peter Prince (1968 Holt, Rinehart and Winston)Creamy & Delicious (short stories) (1970 Random House)Posh (as Stephanie Gatos) (1971 Grove Press) Grassland (Hex) (screenplay with Leo Garen) (1972) Saw (1972 Knopf, reprint 1998 FC2)Cheyenne River Wild Track (booklength poem) (1973 Ithaca House) Moving Parts (1977 Fiction Collective) Stolen Stories (short stories) (1984 Fiction Collective)Florry Of Washington Heights (1987 Sun & Moon Press)Wier & Pouce (1984 Sun & Moon Press)Journalism (poetry) (1990 Bamberger Books)43 Fictions (short stories) (1992 Sun & Moon Press)Swanny's Ways (1995 Sun & Moon Press) Antonello's Lion (2005 Green Integer Books) Kissssssssssss (2007 FC2)