Twice a month, The Rumpus brings your favorite writers directly to your IRL mailbox via our Letters in the Mail program.
Our next letter in the mail comes from authors Beth Kephart and Abigail Thomas. Kephart and Thomas’s joint letter invites us into their own email exchanges where they celebrate the beauty and poetry that can be found bursting across the natural world.
National Book Award finalist Beth Kephart is the author of nearly 40 books in multiple genres, an award-winning memoir teacher, co-founder of Juncture Workshops, and a book artist. My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera is forthcoming from Temple University Press in November 2023. More at bethkephartbooks.com, junctureworkshops.com, and bind-arts.com.
Abigail Thomas has four children, twelve grandchildren, one great-grandchild, nine books, and a high school education. She is eighty-one years old. Her most recent memoir has just been published, Still Life At Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing. She lives in Woodstock, NY, with her dogs.
