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

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.

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.

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.

Death

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

Works

Novels

Short stories

Poetry

Memoir

Anthologies