Writing is like breathing. Making is a compulsion. Gardening is worship. Children are the hardest best medium. Marriage is an anchor in the storm.
I am an artist, wife, and mother in Greenville, South Carolina. I make all sorts of things, especially with words, plants, and textiles. I publish books with my family through Blankenshop. I write an occasional email newsletter on Substack.
I have mostly abandoned social media. Contact mandy.blankenship@gmail.com with thoughts, questions, and inquiries.
- Sideways Notes Podcast, Interview, Jan 2023
- My poems “Thursday Morning” and “Madness of Mothers” were included in the collection Not the Way You Expect: A Collection of Words on Motherhood by Good Printed Things, May 2022
- Sisters, too, Greenville SC and Dallas TX, Sept-Oct 2019
- “When the Personal Shapes the Professional” Adobe’s 99u Interview, June 2019
- Five Ways to Nuture a Sense of Self Adobe’s 99u Interview, June 2019
- Mother Maker Podcast Interview, Mar 2019