Mindy Haskins Rogers’ writing has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Rumpus, Hippocampus Magazine, Atticus Review, Entropy Magazine, and JMWW Journal. Her essay, “My Father’s English: Changing Language, Changing Class,” was among Entropy Magazine’s most popular articles in 2018 and 2021, and was published in Among Others: The Carolina Reader for English 101: Fall 2020 and Fall 2021. Atticus Review nominated her collage essay, “So the Wasps Won’t Sting,” for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Anthology, 2018, and included it in their print annual. In 2019 she was awarded a Straw Dog Writers’ Residency at Patchwork Farm Retreat and received first place in Wellspring House’s 20th Anniversary Residency Contest.

Her memoir-in-progress is a coming-of-age story about the years she lived on the margins, seeking opportunity, adventure, and healing after running away from her working-class home at fifteen.

Mindy is an MFA candidate at Sewanee School of Letters and is 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 is a member of Straw Dog Writers’ Guild and Grub Street Writers. She is a licensed K-12 educator for English Learners.

You can follow her on twitter: @mhaskinsrogers or on Instagram