Mandi Fugate Sheffel was born and raised in Red Fox, KY. She owns and operates Read Spotted Newt, an independent bookstore in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky, and is currently the Sycamore Fund Project Coordinator at The Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky. She is the board vice chair of the Appalachian Arts Alliance and a Mountain Association board member. Mandi is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University.
Visit Read Spotted Newt! readspottednewt.com
Read some of Mandi's recent writing:
Appalachia deserves more than coal or cages. - Lexington Herald Leader
We will rebuild in EKy. Then we must ask why 100-year floods are happening so often.
Interview location: Hazard, KY
Mandi’s Books on the Bed:
The Beatinest Boy by Jesse Stuart
Christy by Catherine Marshall
Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
Trampoline by Robert Gipe
Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith
Kinfolks: The Wilgus Stories by Gurney Norman
Matt’s gifts for Mandi:
O Pioneers! By Willa Cather
Outlawed by Anna North
Mandi Fugate Sheffel