Kate Braverman (February 5, 1949 – October 12, 2019) was an American

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, and

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is the focus for much of her writing.

Biography

Kate Braverman was born in

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, on February 5, 1949. She moved to Los Angeles in 1958 with her family. Braverman earned a

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in Anthropology from

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and an

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in English from

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. She was a member of the Venice Poetry Workshop, Professor of Creative Writing at

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, staff faculty of the

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Writer's Program and taught privately a workshop which included Janet Fitch, Cristina Garcia and Donald Rawley. She died in

Santa Fe, New Mexico Santa Fe ( ; , Spanish for 'Holy Faith'; tew, Oghá P'o'oge, Tewa for 'white shell water place'; tiw, Hulp'ó'ona, label=Tiwa language, Northern Tiwa; nv, Yootó, Navajo for 'bead + water place') is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. ...

, on October 12, 2019.

Works

Novels

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Short stories

"Squandering The Blue", ''KGB Bar Lit''
* * * ''A Good Day For Seppuku''. City Lights Publishers. 2018. .

Poetry

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Memoir

Anthologies

* * The Best American Short Stories 1991 * * *

Awards

Braverman won three

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awards, an

O. Henry Award The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American short-story writer O. Henry. The ''PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories'' is an annual collection of the year's twenty best ...

, and a Carver Short Story Award, as well as the Economist Prize and an Isherwood Fellowship. She was also the first recipient of Graywolf Press's Creative Nonfiction Award for ''Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir'', published in February 2006.

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 by Erin Jourdan

1949 births 2019 deaths American women novelists American women short story writers American women poets Writers from Philadelphia UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni Sonoma State University alumni 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists Poets from California 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American poets 21st-century American poets 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers Novelists from Pennsylvania {{US-writer-stub