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
- Poetry Loves Poetry: An Anthology of Los Angeles Poets. Momentum Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-936054-50-6.
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- 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
External links
- Kate Braverman's official site
- Interview with Kate Braverman at Word Riot
- Interview with Kate Braverman at Bookslut.com
- Interview with Kate Braverman at SmallSpiralNotebook.com
- Interview with Kate Braverman at Zulkey.com
- Interview with Kate Braverman by Erin Jourdan
- "Interview", Zyzzyva, Spring 2004
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- 1950 births
- Living people
- American women novelists
- American women short story writers
- American women poets
- Writers from California
- People from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Sonoma State University alumni
- 20th-century American novelists
- Writers from Pennsylvania
- 21st-century American novelists
- Poets from California
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
- 20th-century American poets
- 21st-century American poets