Kephart has written and published over ten books and has received several grants and awards for her writing.
Kephart was first published in Iowa Woman magazine, and has said that she was writing poems from the time she was quite young, when she was influenced by music and the sound of words.
I loved to perform, with my brother and sister, to the soundtracks of The Music Man or My Fair Lady or Windjammer.
I would read F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis, also, to learn about how words fit together.
Kephart has written for The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Salon, The Washington Post's Book World, The Wall Street Journal Europe edition, Philadelphia magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Family Circle, Parenting magazine, Real Simple, Reader's Digest, New Jersey Life, the Pennsylvania Gazette, and Main Line Today.