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

Her fiction and nonfiction stories have appeared in newspapers, literary journals and anthologies, including The Gettysburg Review, The Chicago Quarterly Review, The Journal, 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.

Kathryn received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from The University of San Francisco (USF). She won an Associated Writing Programs (AWP) first prize for nonfiction in 2003, and a MacDowell Fellowship in 2004.

She has also edited hundreds of book-length fiction and nonfiction manuscripts as a reader at Manus and Associates Literary Agency and on a freelance basis. She delivers extensive and constructive feedback on craft and on process to writers at all levels, and in all stages of completing a book.

Kathryn is currently completing a memoir set in Laos. An excerpt is forthcoming in the Alaska Quarterly Review.