Lithium for Medea

About the Authors

KATE BRAVERMAN is a native of Los Angeles. She was an activist in the ’60s in Berkeley. A member of the Venice Poetry Workshop and professor of creative writing at California State University, she also taught creative writing at the UCLA Writer’s Program.

Besides Lithium for Medea, Braverman has published three other novels—The Incantation of Frida K., Palm Latitudes, and Wonders of the West — four books of poetry, and two collections of short stories. Her stories “Tales from the Mekong Delta” and “Pagan Night” are widely anthologized, and her work has been selected for Best American Short Stories. In 1992 she received the O. Henry Award.

Since 1995, Braverman has lived with her husband, Alan, and daughter, Gabrielle, in the Allegany Mountains.

RICK MOODY is the author of The Ice Storm and Purple America, among others. His latest book, Demonology, was published in 2001. He lives in Fisher Island, N.Y.