Kathryn Kefauver is a Bay Area writer, teacher and consultant.

She recently completed a memoir, The Mother of Water, set in Laos and in Maryland. Excerpts have been published in the Fall & Winter 2008 issues of the Alaska Quarterly Review and in the November 2008 issue of The Sun Magazine. Her story A Woman Alone, A Woman Alone has just come out in Best Women's Travel Writing 2009 and she will be reading at Book Passage, Saturday, March 14th, 2009, at 7:00 pm in Corte Madera.

Her stories have appeared in the The Gettysburg Review, The Journal, The Chicago Quarterly Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Best Travel Writing 2005, Best Women's Travel Writing 2005, A Woman's Asia, and Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild, an anthology by the Seal Press.

Her essay, "Part Lao, Part Falang" won an Associated Writing Programs award for nonfiction in 2003. In 2004, she received a fellowship to the MacDowell Colony. That same year, she completed an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from The University of San Francisco (USF).