Mandy Burkhead

Mandy is a speculative fiction author living in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with her husband and their pets. She has a BA in English with a creative writing emphasis and an MLIS with a focus on YA literature and programming. She and her husband self-published their debut dark fantasy novel in 2017 titled The Black Lily. In 2023 she published her YA/NA fantasy novel A Single Spark. She has had four short stories published in anthologies: “The Lady Defiance” in the steampunk anthology Gears, Ghouls, and Gauges; “The Cursed Isle” in the horror anthology The Monsters We Forgot; “My Lady Bathory” in Tainted Love: Women in Horror Anthology; and “A Midwinter Night’s Escape” in Yay! All Queer (which she also edited). You can find her on Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky @burkshelf.