Kate Braverman. Courtesy Graywolf Press.
Kate Braverman (born 1950) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.[1]
Life[]
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Braverman grew up in Los Angeles, California.[1] She earned a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. in English from Sonoma State University.[2]
She has been a member of the Venice Poetry Workshop, a Professor of [[Creative Writing]] at California State University, Los Angeles,[3] 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 3 Best American Short Stories awards, an O. Henry Award, and a Carver Short Story Award, as well as the Economist Prize and an Isherwood Fellowship. She is also the 1st recipient of Graywolf Press' Creative Nonfiction Award for Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir, published February 2006.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Milk Run. Los Angeles, CA: Momentum Press, 1977.
- Lullaby for Sinners: Poems. New York: Harper & Row, 1980; New York: Pinnacle, 1981.
- Hurricane Warnings: Poems. Los Angeles, CA: Illuminati, 1987.
- Postcard from August. Los Angeles, CA: Illuminati, 1990.
Novels[]
- Lithium for Medea. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
- Palm Latitudes. New York: Linden Press, 1988.
- Wonders of the West: A novel. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1993.
- The Incantation of Frida K. New York: Seven Storis Press, 2001.
Short fiction[]
- Squandering the Blue: Stories. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1990.
- Small Craft Warnings: Stories. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1998.
Non-fictin[]
- Dropping In: Putting it all back together. Los Angeles, CA: Nash, 1973.
- Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An accidental memoir. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2006.
Kate Braverman San Francisco, CA 1981 Poetry Reading SFSU
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art40060.asp
- ↑ http://www.sonoma.edu/uaffairs/notables/authors.html
- ↑ http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/dcareerhist.php
- ↑ Search results = au:Kate Braverman, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, May 14, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- Prose
- "Squandering The Blue" (story) at KGB Bar Lit
- [http://www.katebraverman.com/bravermanreader.html Braverman Reader: Table of contents
- Audio / video
- Books
- Kate Braverman at Amazon.com
- About
- Kate Braverman in The Red Room.
- Kate Braverman: The Braverman Archive Official website
- "The Alian Richness of Kate Braverman's Short Stories" at the New Yorker
- An interview with Kate Braverman at Word Riot
- An interview with Kate Braverman at Bookslut.com
- The Kate Braverman interview at Zulkey.com
- Kate Braverman: Thick as thieves (interview) by Erin Jourdan
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