Kathryn Rhett teaches nonfiction writing at Gettysburg, and serves as co-adviser to the undergraduate magazine of literature and art, The Mercury, and as co-adviser to the Writing House, a residential program for students interested in writing. Rhett is the author of Near Breathing (Duquesne University Press, 1997) and editor of the anthology Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis (Doubleday/Anchor, 1997/1998). A 2007 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellow in Nonfiction, she has published essays in Creative Nonfiction, Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The New York Times Sunday Magazine and elsewhere. She has also published poetry in journals such as Grand Street and Ploughshares, and reviews in Chicago Tribune Books and Tikkun. She has taught at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Iowa, the University of San Francisco, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In addition to teaching at Gettysburg College, she is a core faculty member of the low-residency M.F.A. program at Queens University in Charlotte. She is the recipient of a 2007 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Literature for creative nonfiction. She also teaches a summer workshop in trauma writing at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival.