An award-winning financial journalist as well as a poet, David M. Katz was born on New York's Lower East Side and has lived most of his life in Manhattan. IN PRAISE OF MANHATTAN (Dos Madres Press, 2020) is his fourth book of poetry. His previous books are STANZAS ON OZ (Dos Madres Press, 2015) and CLAIMS OF HOME (Dos Madres Press, 2011), and The Warrior in the Forest, published by House of Keys Press. Poems of his have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, The New Criterion, PN Review, The New Republic, The Hopkins Review, Shenandoah, Alabama Literary Review, The Cortland Review, New Verse News, and The Ekphrastic Review. His criticism has appeared in The Hopkins Review, Contemporary Poetry Review, Raintown Review, Jewish Quarterly (UK), and Congress Monthly. A co-host of the Red Harlem Readers series of poetry readings, he is married to the poet Linda Stern.