Evelyn Katz

Evelyn Ka”tz, “Kohen-Tzedek”, meaning in Hebrew “Priest of Justice”, from Psalm 137, was born in 1956 by CS into a family of Holocaust survivors in north Bukovina, Europe.
At four, she began studying piano and composing music. 
At six, she immigrated with her parents to Israel, and a year later, her father passed away.
As a lonely only child who barely spoke the local language, she combined external reality with vivid dreams and imaginary friends, weaving the background of her singular writing style.
Having studied architecture, piano, pipe organ, and classical music composition, she also performed her own pieces in churches throughout Europe and served as cantor in a Catholic Arab church in Jaffa-Tel-Aviv.
Teaching music, mathematics, and English, Evelyn shared her gift for harmony and structure with adults and children, including persons with special needs.
An amateur astrologer, she developed her own interpretation method and predicted many events. 
Interested in languages, she also reads Greek and Egyptian Hieroglyphs, which she artfully uses in her writing. 
The name of this novel’s heroine, Athanasia, means “immortal” in Greek, Thanatos meaning “death”, echoing Evelyn’s lifelong fascination with spirit and eternity.
Vegan since sixteen, she feeds stray cats, ducks, and pigeons that are drawn to her quiet presence, as readers are drawn to her words.