Vincent Katz is well known in the United States and abroad as a poet, critic, editor, and curator, as well as translator. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry, including Broadway for Paul (2020, Alfred A. Knopf), Swimming Home, (2015, Nightboat Books), Rapid Departures (2005, Ateliê Editorial), Understanding Objects (2000, Hard Press), Pearl (1998, powerHouse Books) and Cabal of Zealots (1988, Hanuman Books). 

He won the 2005 National Translation Award, given by the American Literary Translators Association, for his book of translations from Latin, The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (2004, Princeton University Press). He was awarded a Rome Prize Fellowship in Literature at the American Academy in Rome for 2001-2002.

Katz has taught at the Yale University School of Art (New Haven), in the Art Writing MFA program at the School of Visual Arts (New York), the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University (Boulder, Colorado), the University of Campinas (Brazil), and The Poetry Project (New York). He lives in New York City where he has curated the Readings in Contemporary Poetry series at Dia Art Foundation since 2010.