Writing Biography
Beth Pratt will always remember meeting author Stephen King. As a young girl, she volunteered at her local library and wrote numerous stories that the librarian proudly displayed on the shelves. When Stephen King spoke at the library on a publicity tour, he read one of her stories and encouraged her to keep writing. Although she does not write in his genre she credits this experience at an early age as providing her with the inspiration to be a writer.

At the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Beth began pursuing her writing career in earnest by serving as Fiction Editor for the University's literary magazine, Howth Castle, and as an Assistant Editor for The Mass Media newspaper. She also studied creative writing under the direction of Professor Lee Grove, author of Last Dance and Drowning. In 1991 she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a dual degree in Biological Anthropology and Management and moved from Boston to California.

In California, she attended writing seminars at the University of California at Berkeley and began extending her writing talents into a variety of areas. She served as a contributing editor from 1994-1996 for the Harbinger Magazine, which published several of her short stories and articles. Her work in natural history has also been published in the Yosemite Journal, and online for the Sierra Club and Sierra Nature Notes. She is also the author of the Yosemite National Park Junior Ranger Handbook.

Beth writes about a variety of topics, but most of her fiction work focuses on what she terms "emotional obsession." She loves to write about, "those moments of truth when we realize that our lives have been lived wrong." Her first novel, The Idea of Forever, explores the nature of love through a woman’s desperate search to find her missing sister. Other favorite topics include weather, wildlife, and natural history. She is currently working on a new novel.