Kate Braverman is an experimental writer of a singular and ruthless breed. She is a poet, short fiction writer, essayist and author of the novels,
Lithium for Medea, Palm Latitudes, Wonders of the West, and The
Incantation of Frida K. Her Graywolf Prize winning memoir, Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir
was published in Feb. 2006.

Kate has recently won the Pushcart Prize for her short story, "Cocktail Hour." Other awards include the 2005 Mississippi Review Prize, a Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship for lifetime recognition of achievement. Kate's short-story "Mrs. Jordan's Summer Vacation" won Editor's Choice Raymond Carver Short-Story Award. Her most recent published short story, "What the Shipwrecked Know" appeared in American Short Story.

Braverman’s novels have been published in Italian and Turkish. Always avant garde, her first born, Lithium for Medea, appeared in French in April, 2006, from Quidam.

Kate lives in San Francisco with her husband.


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Lithium for Medea - 2002 Edition.
Palm Latitudes - 2003 Edition.
Squandering the Blue - 1991 Edition.