Mandy Fender is a wife, mother, women's pastor, and writer. She is a blogger for Broken, Beautiful, and Bold, and has a monthly inspirational article in the Westside Sol. Her work has received the Readers' Favorite Five Star Seal and the Redemptive Fiction Award of Excellence by Radiqx Press, and her short story, Samara of Shalocke, is published with Epifiction.