Artist Profile

Originally from Los Angeles, Kate Braverman is an experimental novelist, poet, and short story writer.  She has authored Lithium for Medea, Palm Latitudes, Wonders of the West, and The Incantation of Frida K.  The artist has recently been awarded a Graywolf Prize for her memoir, Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir (2006), and 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, and the Editor's Choice Raymond Carver Short-Story Award.  Braverman received her BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and her MA in English from Sonoma State University. She is a founding member of the Venice Poetry Workshop, Professor of Creative Writing at CSULA, and staff faculty for UCLA Writer's Program.  Braverman lives and works in San Francisco.