Mindy Friddle is the author of The Garden Angel (St. Martin's Press), a SIBA bestseller, and a Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers program selection.

Her second novel, Secret Keepers (St. Martin's Press), won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction.

Regal House published her third novel, Her Best Self, May 21, 2024.

• Her short stories have appeared in LitMag, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Southern Humanities Review, Hard to Find: An Anthology of New Southern Gothic, Orca, storySouth, Sinking City, The Gateway Review, Steel Toe Review, phoebe, and more.

• Recent essays have been published by Writer’s Digest, Necessary Fiction, and anthologized in USC Press, Hub City Press, and Black Dog & Leventhal.

• The South Carolina Arts Commission granted Mindy a Fellowship in Prose, and she has twice won the South Carolina Fiction Prize.

• Named a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in Fiction at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Mindy has been awarded residencies at Ragdale and Bread Loaf.

• Mindy earned her MFA in fiction from Warren Wilson.

• She has worked as a newspaper reporter, a columnist and book reviewer. She taught journalism at Furman University. 

• She lives on gorgeous Edisto Island in South Carolina.

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