• Mandi Fugate Sheffel

  • Sep 27 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • 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

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