Becky Mandelbaum is the author of The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals (Simon & Schuster, 2020), an Indie Next Pick, and Bad Kansas (UGA Press, 2017), which received the 2016 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the 2018 High Plains Book Award for First Book, and was a Kansas Notable Book. Her short fiction, essays, and humor writing have appeared in The New Yorker, One Story, The Sun, The Georgia Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and elsewhere.
She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Writing by Writers, Lighthouse Works, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation and was a finalist for the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Short Story Award, the Joyland Open Border Fiction Contest, the Missouri Review Jeffrey E. Smith Prize in Fiction, and the DISQUIET Prize for Fiction. She has taught creative writing at the University of California Davis, Hugo House, and through Whatcom Community College’s Chuckanut Writers Series. Originally from Kansas, she currently lives in Bellingham, Washington.
