I'm the award-winning writer of more than two-dozen books in multiple genres—memoir, middle grade and young adult fiction, picture books, history, corporate fable, and books on the making of memoir. I'm also an award-winning teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founder of Juncture Workshops, and an essayist and critic with work appearing in The New York Times, Life magazine, Ninth Letter, Catapult, The Millions, The Rumpus, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and elsewhere. Please visit me at junctureworkshops.com or bethkephartbooks.com.
Books
Going Over
2014
Love
A Philadelphia Affair
2015
Behind the Song
2017
A Room of Your Own
A Story Inspired by Virginia Woolf's Famous Essay
2022
This Is the Story of You
2016
The Heart is Not a Size
2010
Ghosts in the Garden
Reflections on Endings, Beginnings, and the Unearthing of Self
2005
Small Damages
2012
Cloud Hopper
2020
A Slant of Sun
One Child's Courage
1998
Undercover
2007
Flow
The Life and Times of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River
2007
Still Love in Strange Places
2002
One Thing Stolen
2015
Tell the Truth. Make It Matter
A memoir writing workbook
2017
Beautiful Useful Things
What William Morris Made
2022
Good Books for Bad Children
The Genius of Ursula Nordstrom
2023
Dr. Radway's Sarsaparilla Resolvent
2013
You Are My Only
2011
Into the Tangle of Friendship
A Memoir of the Things That Matter
2000
We Are the Words
The Master Memoir Class
2021
Dangerous Neighbors
2010
House of Dance
2008
Wild Blues
2018
Handling the Truth
On the Writing of Memoir
2013
Nothing but Ghosts
2009
And I Paint It
Henriette Wyeth's World
2021
The Great Upending
2020
Wife | Daughter | Self
A Memoir in Essays
2021
Seeing Past Z
Nurturing the Imagination in a Fast-Forward World
2004
Nest. Flight. Sky.
2014
