Mindy’s third novel, Her Best Self, was published by Regal House May 21, 2024!

The Southern Bookseller Review says, “The untangling of the past and the future prospects of the Wolf family make this a compelling story ripe for discussion.”

The Charleston Post & Courier calls Her Best Self "a page-turner of a novel...a twisty contemporary mystery and a compelling character study."

More reviews here and what inspired Her Best Self here.

Mindy is the author of The Garden Angel (St. Martin's Press), selected for Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers program. Her second novel, Secret Keepers (St. Martin's Press), won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction. Recent short stories have appeared in Orca, storySouth, Sinking City, LitMag, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Southern Humanities Review, Steel Toe Review, Phoebe, and more.

The South Carolina Arts Commission granted Mindy a Fellowship in Prose, and she has twice won the South Carolina Fiction Prize. Read a more detailed bio here.

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