Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman (born 1950 Philadelphia) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

Life
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Braverman grew up in Los Angeles, California. She has a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. in English from Sonoma State University. She has been a member of the Venice Poetry Workshop, a Professor of Creative Writing at California State University, Los Angeles, staff faculty of the UCLA Writer's Program, and has taught privately a workshop which included Janet Fitch, Cristina Garcia and Donald Rawley. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Recognition
Braverman 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.

Short Stories

 * "Squandering The Blue", KGB Bar Lit

Anthologies

 * The Best American Short Stories 1991 ISBN 0-395-54409-2
 * The Best American Short Stories 1991 ISBN 0-395-54409-2