Ariel Mandel
she/her | writer and educator | Miami, FL, United States
Ariel Mandel (nee Lewis) is a writer and educator whose short prose has appeared in Echoverse, Electric Literature, CRAFT, The Millions, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. In 2025, she was named to the honorable mention list for the Miami Book Fair Emerging Writer Fellowships in Prose, is the recipient of a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and has been twice-nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is represented by Kiele Raymond of Thompson Literary Agency.
Selected work
Gifts
WILDNESS, 2017
Emilys We've Known
Plexus: The Literary Review of the Alpert Medical School, 2017
Another Day, None of Them Got Home
Flock, 2017
What Physics Can Teach Us About Writing Fiction
The Millions, 2018
Being a Quiet Girl in a Very Noisy Time
Electric Literature, 2018
Aviary
DIAGRAM, 2018
Punctuation as Art
CRAFT Literary, 2018
A Rest Season
Gordon Square Review, 2018
SMOKE
Echoverse Anthology, 2020