Beth Kanter

Beth Kanter lives in Washington, DC, with her books, her dog, and the rest of her family. She is writer with more than 20 years of experience working for national magazines and newspapers. Her essays, features, humor pieces, and reported stories have appeared in a wide variety of publications including the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Paste, The Writer, Shape, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Belladonna, Business Insider, Parents, Kveller, and Curbed. Beth also is an award-winning fiction and creative nonfiction writer who leads narrative writing workshops and works one-on-one with writers. You can find her online at bethkanter.com, and follow her on Instagram and Bluesky. 
Reading Through Grief

Reading Through Grief

Books to bring along when navigating loss There it was on my computer screen. A billboard for sadness. For anyone else it was just the “last opened date” on a story draft, this very story in fact, but for me it was a relic from the “before” time. Before the doctors...

Books That Tingle

Books That Tingle

Your Feral Girl Summer Reading List: No Shame, Just Heat in Book Recommendations for Women The nights are steamier, the outfits clingier, and your people-pleasing tendencies are packed away with the fleece. Welcome to Feral Girl Summer. This is your permission to read...