Keren Katz is a cartoonist, writer, and the non-fictitious half of The Katz Sisters Duo. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts's MFA Illustration Program and Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. She is the author of two graphic novels The Academic Hour and The Backstage of a Dishwashing Webshow and was nominated for the SPX Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist. Her work has been published in anthologies by Fantagraphics, Smoke Signal, Locust Moon, Rough House, Ink Brick, Retrofit Comics, The Brooklyn Rail, Kus! (nominated for the SPX Ignatz Award for Outstanding Mini Comic), Carrier Pigeon and Seven Stories Press.