Amanda Katz is a freelance writer, editor, and translator based in Beacon, New York.

A former editor of nonfiction and literary fiction at Bloomsbury USA and a copy editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian, she holds an MFA in poetry from Brown University, where she taught creative writing and coached dissertation writers. She currently works as a book critic, a book and dissertation editor, and a translator (from French).

Amanda Katz writes the Bibliophiles column and reviews books for the Boston Globe; she has also written for the San Francisco Bay Guardian and Venus Zine. Her poetry and translations from French have been published in the New Yinzer, Aufgabe, EOAGH, and the Germ, and she has also translated a number of books for Abrams.

If you'd like help writing or editing your book or dissertation, you've come to the right place.