Mindy Haskins Rogers is a writer and educator whose writing often draws on personal experience as a lens to examine broader class and cultural issues. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Rumpus, Hippocampus Magazine, Atticus Review, and elsewhere. Her essay, “My Father’s English: Changing Language, Changing Class,” first appeared in Entropy Magazine and was republished in Among Others: The Carolina Reader for English 101 by Macmillan Learning in 2020-2021 and on Top Hat e-learning platform, 2022-2025. Her reported viewpoints for Windham County, Vermont’s independent newspaper The Commons were awarded first place for Investigative/Enterprise Reporting in the New England News and Press Association’s 2022 Better Newspaper Competition.

She was awarded a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center for a residency in 2025. In 2023, she received a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council to support work on her memoir, which is a coming-of-age story about the years she lived precariously, seeking opportunity, adventure, and healing after running away from her working-class home at fifteen. In the past she has been awarded residencies from Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Wellspring House’s 20th Anniversary Residency Contest.

Mindy received an MFA from Sewanee School of Letters, where she was a recipient of The Sarah Barnwell Elliott Scholarship. She earned a BA magna cum laude from Smith College, where she attended as a first-generation student and an Ada Comstock Scholar. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She also holds an AA with honors from Greenfield Community College.

She lives in Massachusetts, where she teaches English at a community college.