KATE BRAVERMAN (1949–2019) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. Born in Philadelphia, Braverman moved to Los Angeles in 1958. Braverman was a member of the Venice Poetry Workshop, and was a professor of creative writing at California State University, Los Angeles, and a member of the faculty of the UCLA Writers' Program. Braverman’s fiction won her an O. Henry Award and a Carver Short Story Award, in addition to the Economist Prize and an Isherwood Fellowship. Her works include four novels (Lithium for Medea, 1979; Palm Latitudes, 1988; Wonders of the West, 1993; and The Incantation of Frida K, 2001) as well as four poetry collections, three short story collections, and a memoir. Her story collection Squandering the Blue was first published by Fawcett Columbine/Ballantine in 1990.
