Background
Katzman was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in 1951, to Meyer and Henrietta Katzman and raised in Kansas City.
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He has one sibling, Salli Katz. His interest in writing manifested itself after, he says, a "transformational experience" when he was twenty-two. He had never written creatively before that time.
Their correspondence resides at Butler Library, Columbia University.
Katzman worked at Lamont Library at Harvard University for five years. Lamont houses the Woodberry Poetry Room, a major repository of poetry and audio archives.
The Curator at the time, Stratis Haviaras, was pivotal in guiding Katzman’s future literary pursuits. He lives in Athens, Georgia.
Talk on William Bronk On April 13–14, 2013, Katzman gave a talk at a two-day symposium on the work of William Bronk at New York University and Columbia University called William Bronk in New York: A Symposium on the Life and Work of William Bronk.
The talk is included in a book of the symposium proceedings, William Bronk in the Twenty-First Century: New Assessments, by Edward Foster and Burt Kimmelman, published in December, 2013. Editor Katzman currently edits two online publications, Artzar and Athens Uncharted. Interviews Katzman has interviewed notable people including Stanley Kunitz, William Bronk, Timothy Leary, and John Gurche.
He initiated the first Oral Histories for The Explorer"s Club in New York City.
Three of his interviews (those with Robyn Hitchcock, William Orbit, and Mark Eitzel) have appeared in the magazine, Mondo 2000. Additionally, his interviews with Michael Gosney (producer of the Digital Be-In) and Rugby Union Sirius appeared in the magazine, Internet Underground.
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Membership
In 2005, Katzman was a member of New York Artists Unlimited.
