Mindy Friddle 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.

Her third novel, Her Best Self, is forthcoming from Regal House in 2024.

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.

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“Friddle has a way with the comic yet apt image…funny, down-to-earth and steeped in a sense of place.”
—The Washington Post