Mina Manchester is a Scandinavian-American writer chasing the sun in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Sewanee School of Letters, her work has been featured in Electric Literature, HuffPost, The Evergreen Review, Columbia Journal, The Normal School, Inscape and others. Her work has been chosen as a Finalist for The Masters Review Short Story Award, the Pinch Literary Award, the Bellingham Review Annie Dillard Award in Creative Nonfiction, the Cutthroat Journal Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award, honored by New Millennium Writings and nominated for the UCLA James Kirkwood Prize. A former Editor-At-Large for Five South and Assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine, her workshop experience includes The Kenyon Review Writing Workshop, The Writer’s Hotel, and Narrative’s Art of the Story.