Poet and award-winning financial journalist David M. Katz was born on New York’s Lower East Side and has lived most of his life in Manhattan. His books of poetry include Stanzas on Oz and Claims of Home, both published by Dos Madres Press, and The Warrior in the Forest, published by House of Keys Press. His poems and criticism have appeared in The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, The New Criterion, PN Review, The New Republic, The Hopkins Review, and Contemporary Poetry Review.