Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman (born 1950) is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet, originally from Los Angeles, California, who has garnered great acclaim for works including the novels "Lithium for Medea" (1979), "Palm Latitudes" (1988), "Wonders of the West" (1993), and "The Incantation of Frida K" (2001). Her most significant work has been in stylistic hybrid forms built upon poems and rendered as short stories. She has published two books of short stories, "Squandering the Blue" (1990) and "Small Craft Warnings" (1997). She has also published four books of poetry.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. Braverman has a BA in Anthropology from UC Berkeley and an MA in English from Sonoma State University. She was a founding member of the Venice Poetry Workshop, Professor of CreativeWriting at CSULA, 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 San Francisco.

External links

* [http://www.katebraverman.com Kate Braverman's official site]
* [http://www.bookslut.com/ Interview with Kate Braverman at Bookslut.com]
* [http://www.smallspiralnotebook.com/fall05/katebravermaninterview.shtml Interview with Kate Braverman at SmallSpiralNotebook.com]
* [http://www.zulkey.com/diary_archive_060906.html Interview with Kate Braverman at Zulkey.com]
* [http://www.erinjourdan.com/kate_braverman.xml Interview with Kate Braverman by Erin Jourdan]


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