Mandy Mikulencak has been a writer her entire working life. First, as a newspaper reporter and editor, and then PR specialist for two national nonprofits and a United Nations agency. Her first book, Burn Girl, was honored with a 2016 Westchester Young Adult Fiction Award. She has written two works of historical fiction for Kensington Publishing: The Last Suppers, about a female prison cook in 1950s Louisiana who’s obsessed with preparing final meals for death row inmates, and Forgiveness Road, a family saga that follows three generations of women in Mississippi after the murder of a family member. Mandy has called a few places home: Houston, TX; Washington, DC: Geneva, Switzerland. She and her husband now make their home in Southwest Colorado. Mandy is represented by JL Stermer of New Leaf Literary & Media. Learn more about the author at www.mandymikulencak.com.