read, write, repeat

Mandy Houk is a reader, writer, and teacher. She's been published in nonfiction and recognized in short fiction. Alongside her freelance writing and editing, she spent ten years as a teacher of high school writing and literature, and now conducts writing workshops for at-risk single mothers. She and her husband have two grown daughters, and have filled their empty nest with an assortment of rescue animals.

Mandy is a member artist in the Anselm Society Arts Guild and frequent cohost of Anselm's Believe to See podcast.
Her writing is represented by Elisa Saphier of MacGregor and Luedeke Literary.