Blair Braverman (born May 7, 1988) is an American adventurer, dogsled racer, musher, advice columnist and writer. She raced and completed the 2019 Iditarod, the dogsled race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska.
In 2016, the Outdoor Industry Association selected Braverman as one of its "Outdoor 30 Under 30" and author Sara Marcus called Braverman a "21st century feminist reincarnation of Jack London."
Braverman was born on May 7, 1988, the daughter of research scientist Jana Kay Slater and university professor and author Marc Braverman. She was raised Jewish in Davis, California, in California's Central Valley.
At 10, she spent a year in Norway while her father researched the country's comprehensive smoking ban. She returned to Norway for a term in high school as an exchange student in Lillehammer, eventually graduating from Davis High School in 2006. Spending summers at Camp Tawonga, a Jewish camp near Yosemite, she later attended a Scandinavian folk school in Mortenhals, a traditional one-year trade program, and studied dogsledding and winter survival.
She returned to the United States in 2007, graduating from Colby College in 2011, where she studied environmental law. While in college, she wrote and published articles in magazines and newspapers, both locally and nationally. She also spent two summers working as a dogsled guide on a glacier in Alaska.
Braverman later earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa, where she received a fellowship.
In 2016, Braverman published Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, a memoir of her childhood and northern adventures as well as a study of the ways men and women cope with harsh environments — and each other. Braverman discussed the perils not only from blizzards, isolation and wild animals, but also from sexism and violence faced by women adventurers in a male-dominated field — distinguishing the memoir from travel narratives and self-discovery memoirs. In her blurb for the book, author Sara Marcus called Braverman the "21st-century feminist reincarnation of Jack London," and the book was recommended by O, The Oprah Magazine.
In 2022, Braverman published Small Game, her first novel. She has also written articles exploring gender, trans issues, and online harassment. She is a contributing editor for Outside Magazine, and wrote a regular advice column called "Tough Love" dealing with relationships and the outdoors. Braverman's work has also appeared in The Atavist, BuzzFeed, and the Smithsonian, among others.
She has been a resident Fellow at Blue Mountain Center and the MacDowell Colony.
Braverman has operated a kennel. She trained for the 2018 Iditarod and completed the 2019 Iditarod, finishing 36th. She was only the second Jewish woman to have completed the race.
In 2015, Braverman was featured on the public radio show This American Life as part of the episode "Game Face."
Braverman appeared on a special episode of Discovery's Naked and Afraid in 2019, an experience she wrote about in detail for Outside. Also in 2019, she was a guest on The Today Show. After her appearance, Harry Smith continued to follow her Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race effort; and the following week he featured a spot about her team, who raised over $100,000 for Alaska public schools during a campaign called #igivearod. The campaign continues to raise funds for causes in rural Alaska each year.
In 2021, she appeared on the New York Times Sway podcast, in which she and host Kara Swisher discussed survival and resilience.
Braverman was previously in a relationship with Quince Mountain, a fellow writer she met in graduate school who became the first trans musher to compete in the Iditarod. They separated in 2025.