BOOKS
fiction
My novel Good Guys, about estranged sisters who become embroiled in a hometown crime that intersects with the Iraq war, is coming out October 2026 in both the US and the UK with Melville House.
Preorder at your local bookstore, request your library to carry a copy, or purchase anywhere books are sold.
praise for good guys
“Mindy Misener’s Good Guys is a thrilling debut, a brilliantly paced and plotted novel built around a shattering secret and the transformations it provokes within a family and a community. Misener explores the oceanic silences that surround the archipelago of the stories people tell and retell about the past, and the power of our stories to both conceal and reveal truth. Georgie and Jo had my heart, and Misener’s beautiful novel charts the tidal forces that shape their lives, and our own.” — Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!
This dual coming-of-age novel captured me completely. I read it over one busy week, and couldn’t wait to get back to Jo and Georgie at the end of each day. Mindy Misener writes beautifully about sisters, family ties, moral complexities, and the fragile landscape of earliest adulthood.” — Monica Wood, author of How to Read a Book
“An intimately observed portrait of small-town sisters in the twin shadows of the opioid epidemic and America’s foreign wars. Running throughout, a profoundly affecting current of hope in the form of the dogged love of siblings. Misener’s debut is exquisitely crafted, emotionally acute and brimming with heart.” — Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl
nonfiction
I got onto the ministry path in large part because I found so much joy and meaning in writing and giving sermons. In 2026, One Subject Press will publish my sermon collection More Than We Asked For. Below is an excerpt.
It is not so easy, it turns out, to be created. It is not so easy to owe one’s life to a god who is not done with you yet. It is not so easy to understand the reality that we are not our own, that God was no more with us at our first breath than at this one. It is not so easy to bear the changes that come with age, not so easy to feel exiled from the people we once were and unsure of what we will become. It is not so easy to survey the wasteland places in our lives, to feel called forward when we have not yet made peace with our past. It is not so easy to know, at bedrock bottom of our brains, that our becoming is a process in which we play only a small part. It is not so easy to belong to a God who on the one hand can seem so very absent and on the other won’t leave us alone. We cry, as if with the possessed men in the Gospel stories, What do you want from me?
from “How to Be Created”
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