Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman (born 1950 Philadelphia) is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She was raised in Los Angeles, which is the focus for much of her writing.^[1]

Life

Braverman has a BA in Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley and an MA in English from Sonoma State University.^[2] She was a member of the Venice Poetry Workshop, Professor of Creative Writing at California State University, Los Angeles,^[3] staff faculty of the UCLA Writer's Program and taught privately a workshop which included Janet Fitch, Cristina Garcia and Donald Rawley. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Awards

She has won three Best American Short Stories awards, an O. Henry Award, Carver Short Story Award, as well as the Economist Prize and an Isherwood Fellowship. She is also the first recipient of Graywolf Press' Creative Nonfiction Award for Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir, published February 2006.

Works

Novels

Braverman, Kate (1979). Lithium for Medea. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1-58322-471-7.
Braverman, Kate (1988). Palm Latitudes. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1-58322-572-1.
Wonders of the West. Fawcett Columbine. 1993. ISBN 978-0-449-90656-9.
Braverman, Kate (2001). The Incantation of Frida K. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1-58322-571-4.

Short stories

"Squandering The Blue", KGB Bar Lit
Squandering the Blue. Fawcett Columbine. 1990. ISBN 978-0-449-90551-7.
Small Craft Warnings. University of Nevada Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-87417-321-5.

Poetry

Lullaby for sinners. Pinnacle Books. 1981. ISBN 978-0-523-41539-0.
Postcard from August. Illuminati. 1990. ISBN 0-89807-262X.

Memoir

Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir. Graywolf Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-55597-438-1.

Anthologies

Bill Mohr, Sheree Levin, eds. (1985). Poetry Loves Poetry: An Anthology of Los Angeles Poets. Momentum Press. ISBN 978-0-936054-50-6.
The Best American Short Stories 1991 ISBN 0-395-54409-2
William Miller Abrahams, ed. (1992). Prize Stories 1992: The O. Henry Awards. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-385-42192-8.
Gerald W. Haslam, ed. (1999). Many Californias: Literature from the Golden State. University of Nevada Press. ISBN 978-0-87417-325-3.
Ben Marcus, ed. (2004). The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. Anchor. ISBN 978-1400034826.

References

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Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 75139091 ISNI: 0000 0001 1448 2141

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