Bethany Hegedus Biography

BETHANY HEGEDUS’ books include the award-winning Grandfather Gandhi and the newly released Be the Change: A Grandfather Gandhi Story both co-written with Arun Gandhi grandson to the Mahatma and illustrated by Evan Turk. The Grandfather Gandhi books join Bethany’s novels Truth with a Capital T and Between us Baxters in gracefully handling race class and diversity issues.
A graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program in Writing for Children & Young Adults Bethany is prior editor of the literary journal Hunger Mountain. Bethany is the Owner and Creative Director of The Writing Barn a writing retreat workshop and event space in Austin Texas.
She has sat on panels with Ilyasha Shabazz Malcolm X’s daughter and Arun Gandhi grandson to the Mahatma. A former educator Bethany is an in-demand presenter and she speaks and teaches across the country.
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