[3] After studying sociology and literature at Krakow University, Katz worked as a literary critic in the 1960s.
[3] In 1969, she emigrated to Denmark with her mother during the period of antisemitism after the Six-Day War in 1967 when the Soviet Union sided with the Arabs.
In 2006, she published another poetry collection Min spaltede tunge (My Split Tongue, 2006) and in 2009 the novel Længsel pa bestilling (Longing to Order), a romance about a Jewish girl from Denmark who meets Sammy on a trip to Israel.
In 2008, she wrote another collection of poems, this time in Polish: Pisane po polsku.
It contains reflections on her childhood in Poland during the holocaust, many of them sorrowfully negative: "Hvor lang er ikke denne liste/ af uindbudne gæster/ til mit ikke-bryllup?"