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Best Women's Travel Writing 2009 A Woman Alone, A Woman Alone
Best Women's Travel Writing 2009, True Stories from Around the World
Travelers' Tales, January 2009

Travelers' Tales books luxuriate in that complicated, beautiful, shadowy place where the best stories begin, and the most compelling characters roam free. —ForeWord Magazine

This best-selling, award-winning series presents the finest accounts of women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples — and themselves. The common threads connecting the stories are a woman's perspective and lively storytelling to make the reader laugh, cry, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn't. From breaking the gender barrier on a soccer field in Kenya to learning the art of French cooking in a damp cellar in the Loire Valley to hitchhiking through Mexico in the 1960s, the points of view and perspectives are global and the themes eclectic, including stories that encompass spiritual growth, hilarity and misadventure, high adventure, romance, solo journeys, stories of service to humanity, family travel, and encounters with exotic cuisine.

The Sun Magazine
Where Water Comes From
The Sun Magazine
November 2008
Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall & Winter 2008
My Evil is Lucky
The Alaska Quarterly Review
Fall & Winter 2008
Best Travel Writing 2005 Part Lao, Part Falang
Best Travel Writing 2005, True Stories from Around the World
February 2005

The best travel writing entertains and enlightens, inspires and instructs. Kathryn Kefauver manages to do all these things at once, in her unaffected yet forceful imagery from "Part Lao, Part Falang:" "The symptoms for river blindness formed a perfect haiku: skin can become thick, / dark, scaly redness and tears, / finally, blindness." There, in the poetic form's classic seventeen syllables, she conveys both the substance of the country and her experience within it, capturing the reality of life in a developing culture and communicating its effect upon her with crisp clarity and lyric vitality.
Carol Haggas, ForeWord Magazine

Some, like Pico Iyer's elegant account of yet another journey to Dharamsala in northern India, and Murad Kalam's story of making the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, are handsomely crafted examples of the travel genre. Kathryn Kefauver's recollection of alarming culinary encounters in Laos, and Sally Shivnan's loving description of Alhambra, the ornate Moorish palace in Spain, are real gems.
Laszlo Buhasz, Globe and Mail

A Woman's Asia
The Beginner's Gift
A Woman's Asia, Travelers' Tales
May 2005
Chicago Quarterly Review
Salvaging
The Chicago Quarterly Review
Spring 2005
Best Women's Travel Writing 2005
It Takes a Village to Please My Mother
Best Women's Travel Writing 2005
Travelers' Tales, April 2005
The Journal
Part Lao, Part Falang

Spring 2004
AWP Intro to Journals First Prize Award in Creative Nonfiction
Going Alone By The Sides of Deep Rivers
Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild
Anthology by Seal Press, May 2004
There are plenty of wilderness adventures in this collection, but the editor thankfully realizes that "going alone" doesn't always entail a sleeping bag, wilderness and no other humans for miles and miles. In Kathryn Kefauver's "By the Sides of the Deep Rivers," "alone" is a state of mind and Kefauver shows us how one can be as alone in the populated Himalayan foothills of Nepal as in the deepest wilderness.
Nicole Panter, Missoula Independent
CSMonitor
Lesson No. 1: Laughter Needs No Translation
The Christian Science Monitor
August 2003
Gettysburg Review
The Cool Good Life Is The Farmer's
The Gettysburg Review
Winter 2003