Katz received her M.F.A. in ceramics from Florida State University and currently teaches at Southeastern Louisiana University. Lynda Katz is an award winning potter who has lived and worked in Southeast Louisiana since 1973. She works exclusively in porcelain – a high fire, white, vitreous clay body that requires great skill from the potter. She throws each piece individually by hand.

Some pieces incorporate hand building techniques and/or alliteration of the thrown form. After an initial bisque firing, the pieces are glazed and decorated using a technique similar to majolica. Her work incorporates a broad range of influences from throughout the history of ceramics, especially the classic porcelains of the Chinese Song Dynasty and Japanese folk pottery.