Background
Kaufman was born in Austin, Texas, and was raised in Washington District of Columbia.
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She earned a Bachelor in English from the University of Maryland, where she studied under poet laureate Reed Whittemore. She graduated in 1988 with a master"s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Career
Her most recent work, The Art of Grace, will be published by West.W. Norton and Company in fall of 2015. Kaufman studied dance until she gave it up in graduate school. She broke into journalism when she complained to the Washington City Paper that they lacked dance reviews and then began writing reviews for that publication.
Upon their return to the United States, Kaufman began freelancing for the Post.
While writing for the Post, she broke the story that many of the works of Martha Graham were in the public domain.
