Becky Mandelbaum is the author of THE BRIGHT SIDE SANCTUARY FOR ANIMALS and BAD KANSAS, which received the 2016 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the 2018 High Plains Book Award for First Book, and was a Kansas Notable Book in 2018.
Her work has appeared in One Story, The Sun, The Missouri Review, The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, Necessary Fiction, Hobart, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and has been featured onMedium. She has received fellowships from Writing by Writers, a residency from The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and was a finalist for the 2019 Disquiet Literary Prize in Fiction and the 2020 Nelson Algren Award.
Originally from Kansas, she currently lives in Bellingham, Washington.
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