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

She recently completed a memoir, The Mother of Water, set in Laos. 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" was included in Best Women's Travel Writing 2009.

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).