
Mina Manchester
ABOUT
Mina Manchester's work has appeared or is forthcoming from Electric Literature, HuffPost, Columbia Journal, The Normal School, Inscape, and The Evergreen Review. She has an MFA from Sewanee and is a former editor-at-large for Five South and Assistant Editor at Narrative. A Scandinavian American from the Pacific Northwest, she now worships the sun in Los Angeles with her family.

WRITING
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"The Famous Artist Wellness Program," with Russ Rubin, Electric Literature, March 2023
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"Diane Arbus Reviews awkwardfamilyphoto.com," Electric Literature, December 2022
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"How Shall I Reject Thee? Let Me Count the Ways," Electric Literature, December 2022
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"An Open Letter to the Nutcracker Ballet," Electric Literature, December 2022
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"My NaNoWriMo Diary," with Lauren Christiansen, Electric Literature, November 2022
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Be Persistent. An Interview with Carol Orange, Five South, June 2021
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Seeking New Perspectives. An Interview with Donna Florio, Five South, May 2021
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Playing the Long Game. An Interview with Marcia Butler, Five South, April 2021
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"Not This Time," Inscape, Fall 2020 (print only)
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"The Plumber," Close-but-no-cigar shortlist, The Molotov Cocktail, Fall 2020
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"What Parenting Immunocompromised Kids Taught Me About Battling Coronavirus," HuffPost, March 2020
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"Five Brutally Honest Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Had Kids," Dispatch From Daybreak, March 2020
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"I'm Sad for the Version of Me that has Cancer, but I Talk About it to Help Others," Interview with Caroline Crocker Moore, Hither & Thither, June 2019
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Interview with Elizabeth Forsyth, Hither & Thither, April 2019
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Interview with Elizabeth Laime, Hither & Thither, March 2019
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Interview with Elizabeth Forsyth, Hither & Thither, April 2019
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"Screen Time," The Normal School, August 2018
AWARDS, INTERVIEWS& WORKSHOPS
AWARDS
Finalist, Pinch Literary Award 2020
Finalist, Bellingham Review Annie Dillard Award
in Creative Nonfiction 2022
Nominated UCLA James Kirkwood Prize in Creative Writing 2019
Finalist, Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award,
Cutthroat Journal of the Arts 2015
INTERVIEWS
Spoken Label podcast
WORKSHOPS
Kenyon Review Writing Workshop 2019
The Writer's Hotel 2019, TA 2020-21
Narrative The Art of the Story 2015