


She was the 2013 Miami YoungArts Master Teacher. Beth’s essays can be found at The Normal School, Ninth Letter, North American Review, Creative Nonfiction, Cleaver, Brevity, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, and elsewhere.īeth is the recipient of the 2015 Beltran Family Award for Innovative Teaching and Mentoring at the University of Pennsylvania. Her new books are Wife | Daughter | Self: A Memoir in Essays, We Are the Words: The Master Memoir Class, Beautiful Useful Things: What William Morris Made (with Melodie Stacey), and A Room of Your Own: A Story Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Famous Essay (with Julia Breckenreid). Beth Kephart, the award-winning author of three dozen books of fiction and nonfiction, has chaired national literature juries and has written about memoir and literature for The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Millions, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, Huffington Post, Image Journal Good Letters, and elsewhere.
