Dana Mentink lives in California where the weather is golden and the cheese is divine. Her family includes two teen girls (affectionately nicknamed Yogi and Boo Boo.) Papa Bear is retired from the fire department and he met Dana doing a dinner theater production of The Velveteen Rabbit. Ironically, their parts were husband and wife.
Dana is USA TODAY and Publishers Weekly bestselling author as well as a two time ACFW Carol Award winner. Her suspense novel, Betrayal in the Badlands, earned a Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award. She is honored to write for Harlequin’s Love Inspired, Harlequin Heartwarming, and Harvest House Publishers. Besides writing, she busies herself teaching third grade. Mostly, she loves to be home with Papa Bear, Yogi, Boo Boo, a dog with social anxiety problems, a chubby box turtle and a feisty parakeet.
Awards
- 2015 Heart of Excellence Finalist for Return to Pelican Inn
- 2014 ACFW Carol Award Winner for Jungle Fire
- 2013 ACFW Carol Award Winner for Lost Legacy
- 2012 Award of Merit in the Holt Medallion Contest
- Pacific Northwest Writers Literary Contest, inspirational fiction, 2008
- Women on Writing Flash Fiction contest, 2007
- Long and Short Reviews Best Romance of 2007 nomination
- Get Your Stiletto in the Door Contest finalist, 2005
- ACFW Book of the Year Finalist, 2009
- 2010 Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award Winner
- 2019 Daphne duMaurier Award finalist
- Publisher’s Weekly bestselling author
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