| Mandy Houk's early childhood was happily spent in her birthplace of Atlanta, Georgia, where aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents all lived nearby. She did the rest of her growing up in South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and California. She made her first adult move last year, to the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies.
Mandy fell in love with writing before she entered kindergarten, thanks to a spectacular mom who taught her to read early. Mandy's first attempts included silly poems, songs, and stories, most of which concluded with a wedding (including the first story that she had bound as a book, which was exclusively populated with talking chipmunks).
Through elementary school, middle school, high school, and college, Mandy kept writing poems, songs, and stories, but they weren't always silly. At least not intentionally. She took some time off from writing when she entered the work world (illogically taking a job as an accounts payable manager, where she was infinitely grateful for calculators).
In 1992, Mandy became Fabulous Peter's wife, and by 1998, they'd completed their family with two lovely daughters. All the reading and storytelling that comes with being a Mommy rekindled Mandy's first love, and she enthusiastically returned to writing.
For Mandy's publication history, please click here.
For information on Mandy's editing and ghostwriting services, as well as a list of topics she has used for speaking engagements, click here.
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