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

NONFICTION

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"Forgiveness in the Time of Covid," Finalist, Bellingham Review’s 2021 Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction

"What Parenting Immunocompromised Kids Taught Me About Battling Coronavirus," in HuffPost 

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"Five Brutally Honest Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Had Kids," in Dispatch From Daybreak

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Writer Interviews for Five South

• Playing the Long Game. An Interview with Marcia Butler.

• Seeking New Perspectives. An Interview with Donna Florio.

• Be Persistent. An Interview with Carol Orange.

"What Keeps You Up At Night," interview series for Hither & Thither

• Interview with Elizabeth Laime

• Interview with Robyn King

• Interview with Elizabeth Forsyth

• Interview with Kat Nitsou

• "I'm Sad for the Version of Me that has Cancer, but I Talk About it to Help Others," Interview with Caroline Crocker Moore 

EDITING

PROFESSIONAL EDITING

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Novel, short story, flash, personal essay, nonfiction, creative nonfiction and humor

Developmental edits

Line editing

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Please contact me to discuss your project.