Kate Braverman
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Kate Braverman is an American
United States
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 novelist, short story writer, and poet
Poet
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, originally from Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
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Life

Braverman has a BA in Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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 and an MA in English from Sonoma State University
Sonoma State University
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. She was a member of the Venice Poetry Workshop, Professor of Creative
Writing at California State University, Los Angeles
California State University, Los Angeles
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, staff faculty of the UCLA Writer's Program and taught privately a workshop which included Janet Fitch, Cristina Garcia and Donald Rawley. She currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Awards

She has won three Best American Short Stories
Best American Short Stories
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 awards, an O. Henry Award
O. Henry Award
The O. Henry Award is the only yearly award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American master of the form, O. Henry....

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

Short Stories


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