Writer and poet Mindy Ohringer was a contributor to the Thieving Magpie’s Issue 2.

She considers the intersection of Utopia Parkway and Union Turnpike to be her ancestral home. She writes about politics, feminism, history, love, idealism and the challenges of storytelling. Ms. Ohringer studied Political Science at Barnard College and earned an M.A. in Politics from N.Y.U. Her work has appeared in The Columbia Spectator, New Choices, MORE.com, “The Great Neck News”, “The Great Neck Record”, The Greenwich Village Literary Review, and October Hill Magazine.

This past September, she was a “Writer in Residence” at Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock. In June 2018, she participated in Marge Piercy’s juried poetry intensive. Her ten minute play “One Ring Rules Them All” received staged readings as part of the “Play Lab” at the I.W.W.G. July conference and during her Byrdcliffe residency.

Her three poems, “Art Deco Love”, “Some Girls On Swings”, and “Behind Two Doors” appear in the Winter 2019 issue of Rat’s Ass Review.  And her poems “Ithaca 1980” and “Where To Find Her” appear in the Summer and Autumn editions of October Hill Magazine.

Her blog can be found at https://mindyohringer.com

She continues to write politically charged fiction and is working on the second book (“The Wife in Winter: Oaths of Fealty”) of her phantasmagorical trilogy about women writers sand the 2008 presidential election.