10 Questions for Ariel KatzFor several years in her twenties, Ruth lived with a man who did not believe in happiness. —from Ariel Katz’s “Organizing Principle,” Volume 66, Issue 2 (Summer 2025)Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote. I’ve lived in a lot of different places since; each one seems to eventually find its way into my stories. But recently, when I’m en route to coffee shops to write, I’ve been on a Velvet Underground kick for some reason. ARIEL KATZ’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Sewanee Review, Missouri Review, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.