Becky Mandelbaum is the author of THE BRIGHT SIDE SANCTUARY FOR ANIMALS, an Indie Next pick, and BAD KANSAS, which received the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the High Plains Book Award for First Book, and was a Kansas Notable Book.
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker Daily Shouts, One Story, The Sun, The Missouri Review, The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, Necessary Fiction, Hobart, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and has been featured on Medium. Her work has received support from Hedgebrook, Writing by Writers, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Lighthouse Works, and the Washington Arts Commission. She was a finalist for the 2019 Disquiet Literary Prize in Fiction, the 2020 and 2022 Missouri Review Editor’s Prize in Fiction, the 2020 Nelson Algren Award, and the 2022 Joyland Open Border Fiction Prize.
Originally from Kansas, she currently lives in Bellingham, Washington.