Kate Braverman

 ( 1949 Births ) 

Kate Braverman (February 5, 1949 – October 12, 2019) was an American novelist, short story, and poet. Los Angeles was the focus for much of her writing.

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Formative years Kate Braverman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 5, 1949. She moved to Los Angeles in 1958 with her family.

Braverman earned a B.A. in Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. in English from Sonoma State University.

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Career Braverman was a member of the Venice Poetry Workshop, Professor of Creative Writing at California State University, Los Angeles, and staff faculty of the UCLA Writer's Program.

She also taught a private workshop that included Janet Fitch, Cristina Garcia and Donald Rawley.

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Awards Braverman won three 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 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.

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Death Braverman died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on October 12, 2019.

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Works

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Novels

• (1979). 9780060104412, Harper & Row. . ISBN 9780060104412
• (1988). 9781583225721, Seven Stories Press. . ISBN 9781583225721
• (1993). 9780449906569, Fawcett Columbine. . ISBN 9780449906569
• (2025). 9781583225714, Seven Stories Press. . ISBN 9781583225714

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Short stories

• "Squandering The Blue", KGB Bar Lit
• (1990). 9780449905517, Fawcett Columbine. . ISBN 9780449905517
• (1998). 9780874173215, University of Nevada Press. . ISBN 9780874173215
• A Good Day For Seppuku. City Lights Publishers. 2018. .

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Poetry

• (1981). 9780523415390, Pinnacle Books. ISBN 9780523415390
• (1987). 9780898071467, Illuminati. ISBN 9780898071467
• (1990). 089807262X, Illuminati. 089807262X

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Memoir

• (2025). 9781555974381, Graywolf Press. ISBN 9781555974381

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Anthologies

• (1985). 9780936054506, Momentum Press. ISBN 9780936054506
• The Best American Short Stories 1991
• (1992). 9780385421928, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. . ISBN 9780385421928
• (1999). 9780874173253, University of Nevada Press. . ISBN 9780874173253
• (2025). 9781400034826, Anchor. . ISBN 9781400034826

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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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