Mandy writes fiction exploring motherhood, womanhood, and that laugh that bubbles up when you're crying. She's the winner of WestWord's 2025 Hermit Crab Prize and the Ninth Writer's Playground Short Story Competition, and she's been nominated for Best Small Fiction. Her work is forthcoming in Uncharted and Does It Have Pockets.
Selected work
Collisions in a Kentucky Buc-ees off I-75
Fictive Dream, 2026
Cheesecake Factory
FlashFlood Journal, 2026
Aurora Australis
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 2026
Sleeping Bears, Singing Sand
Flash Fiction Magazine, 2025
badger
wildscape. literary journal, 2025
Unidentified Flying Objects
Writers' Playground, 2024
PETIT BATTEMENT
The Keeping Room, 2025
SKINCARE QUIZ: YOUR PERSONAL BEAUTY ROUTINE TO REPAIR DAMAGE FROM A TOXIC MEMORY
WestWord Journal, 2025

