Mindy Friddle's first novel, The Garden Angel (St. Martin’s Press/Picador), was selected for the Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers program in 2004. She has received a fellowship in fiction from the South Carolina Academy of Authors, has twice won the South Carolina Fiction Prize, and was awarded the Walter Dakin Felllowship in Fiction from Sewanee. A book reviewer and columnist, Friddle holds an MFA from Warren Wilson.
She lives in Greenville where she directs the Writing Room, a program for writers. She is now at work on her second novel.
