Something about the Nature of Midnight

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.