Ripley A. Mandanis is transgender writer, educator, and organizer, based in Queens, NY. Winner of the 2018 Lipkin Prize for Playwriting, she is a lecturer at the City College of New York, where she was awarded the 2026 Malamud Scholarship for Creative Writing and the 2025 DeJur Award for Fiction. Her work is featured in New Words Press, No Dear, Left Voice, WMN, Exquisites, Promethean, Lilac Peril, and Bloodletter Magazine.
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