Nina Mandelik was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, attended high school in Prague, Paris, and Montreal. She has a degree from Indiana University. She has worked as a reference librarian, a research assistant in the Department of Grain Science at Kansas State University, and she taught French and Russian at the high school level. Later, she spent twelve years as an instructor in the English department at Kansas State University.

Her first published novel was Entity, published by Putnam/Berkley in 1991. It was about the haunting of Fort Riley, and in conjunction with its publication there were TV interviews on the Topeka affiliates ABC, NBC, and CBS-- and radio interviews on the KCMO Mike Murphy Talk Show, a KKSU interview with Ralph Titus, and a local KMAN interview with Amy Sullivan. She was also invited to talk to the Fort Riley Historical Society on Post. (The base is really haunted.)

Ms. Mandelik has six children.

Nina's Current Releases

The Uninvited     IUniverse ISBN: 0-5951939-0-0  They fought in World War I, World War II, and in the Persian Gulf. Now the enemy is in their midst: unseen, unknown, uninvited. Michael Triplett returns to Fort Riley, and the siege begins. Michael sees impossible things-and no one believes him. People die. His 13-year old sister matures overnight. Then a soldier's corpse vanishes from its drawer in the morgue, and the malevolent atmosphere in the Tripletts' quarters explodes. At the same time, the father of Michael's friend, Tim, is acting like a man possessed. Scared for his family and for Tim, Michael helplessly watches his parents' marriage dissolve-even while he falls hard for a college freshman named Maggie. He longs more than anything to be just a normal guy. Only he is not. The dead have singled him out. Learn more/purchase from Amazon.com