Beth has appeared as a guest on numerous TV and radio shows as well as literary panels. She and her artist husband make and sell handmade books. She has frequently presented keynote addresses and talks.
NEWS
My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera is one of two runners up in the Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award; the book was previously shortlisted. I am so very honored by this. From the press release: “This year’s pool of submissions impressed us immensely, but by the end of our deliberations three books identified themselves as our top titles,” said Selection Committee Chair and Interlochen Arts Academy Dean of Academics Eric Blackburn. “Jonathan Leal’s Dreams in Double Time–a deeply researched and lyrically written exploration of bebop as a space for resistance, disruption, and dreaming new futures into being–and Beth Kephart’s My Life in Paper–an inviting and compelling memoir highlighting the ephemeral but deeply meaningful nature of paper as a means for remembering and forgetting, creating and eliding–both distinguished themselves as very deserving finalists for this award.”
“Conversations with Women in Blue” has won the 2025 Porch Prize in Creative Nonfiction.
“Lightning Strikes” is a finalist in the 2025 Cleaver Magazine Visual Poetics Contest.
Reed Magazine Feature, including an interview, a review, and art made to accompany the book, June 2025.
Reed Magazine Podcast Interview, June 2025.
My essay “The Gift Giver” appears in The Book of Alchemy (Suleika Jaouad)
My Mighty Blaze interview with Caroline Leavitt can be watched here.
A beautiful Washington Post Book World capsule summary here.
Historical Novel Review: “The lyrical prose, the mood shifts, and the unfurling of the storyline all add to the sense of wispy clouds merging together and then dispersing over and over in its narration.”
Small Press Picks calls Tomorrow “staggeringly beautiful” in a breathtaking review.
Beth’s first novel for adults, Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News, has received a Booklist star.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Arts and Crafts
CraftForms 2025 Holiday Shopping Weekend, 12/12-12/14, 10 – 5 PM EST, Wayne Art Center, Bind Arts booth
I continue to celebrate the books of now and then, the life of the artist, and the paper artifact at my bestseller Substack, The Hush and the Howl.