Kate Braverman has been chronicling her life in poetry, short stories, essays, and novels for thirty years. Raised on welfare in the stucco slums of Los Angeles, she studied comparative literature and anthropology and graduated from Berkeley in 1971. She was a founding member of the Venice Poetry Workshop and Women’s Building. Her novel, Lithium for Medea, is currently in its fifth edition and her work has been translated into Italian, Turkish, Japanese, and French. She is married to Dr. Alan Goldstein, a research scientist in nanobiotechnology and a futurist, and they live in San Francisco.
Fiction
Spring 1995
Vanishing Acts
This is how she imagines the vanishing would be: She envisions herself learning an entirely new city, something near a harbor or surrounded by fields of barley and potatoes. She […]
Fiction
Winter 1994
Something about the Nature of Midnight
It is New Year’s Eve, 1981. Rachel Stein prepares to remember this night, to map and preserve it in a kind of invisible neural acid. Such a process must be […]
Weekend Reads
Something about the Nature of Midnight
From the Kenyon Review, New Series, Winter 1994, Vol. XVI, No. 1 It is New Year’s Eve, 1981. Rachel Stein prepares to remember this night, to map and preserve it […]