Mandie Tepe

Mandie Tepe is a Missouri girl—born and raised. After growing up outside of St. Louis, she’s spent over the past 30 years living in Joplin, Missouri, in the southwest corner of the state.

Being a life-long bookworm, she dreamed of writing her own books since taking a creative writing class in high school. It wasn’t until January 2009—after her husband tossed a spiral notebook into her lap and challenged her to “write it down... start making notes”—that she dove in and wrote the first of her New Beginnings series’ books.

After finishing her ten-book New Beginnings series she began writing the Crossroads series in 2018.

She has always favored books with likable characters that oftentimes are overcoming hardships with courage and humor. Since experiencing Joplin’s 2011 EF-5 tornado (which absolutely was not on her bucket list) she’s been even more inspired by the determination and resiliency of the human spirit. That’s what she loves to write about.

Mandie and her husband, Jay (author of several books of his own), are parents to two grown sons and an amazing daughter-in-law, and are enjoying their roles as Nana and Papa.