Mandy Miles

Mandy Miles is an award-winning newspaper columnist, reporter and freelance writer who has been living and writing in Key West, Florida since 1998. Her award-winning "Tan Lines" column appears Sundays in The Key West Citizen newspaper, offering a humorous and sarcastic look at Key West and the chaos of everyday life. Two volumes of her "Tan Lines" columns have been published in book form and have sold more than 5,000 copies. Her most recent book, "Key West Dos & Don'ts: 100 Ways to Look Like a...See more

Mandy Miles is an award-winning newspaper columnist, reporter and freelance writer who has been living and writing in Key West, Florida since 1998. Her award-winning "Tan Lines" column appears Sundays in The Key West Citizen newspaper, offering a humorous and sarcastic look at Key West and the chaos of everyday life. Two volumes of her "Tan Lines" columns have been published in book form and have sold more than 5,000 copies. Her most recent book, "Key West Dos & Don'ts: 100 Ways to Look Like a Local" provides an insider's guide to island etiquette and a candid view of local life in a tourist town. Miles grew up at the Jersey Shore in Ocean City, living and longing for those three magical months of summer. Mandy earned a writing degree from Elon University in North Carolina. During a college spring break trip that no one remembers all that clearly, she fell in love with Key West. Mandy discovered the American island of endless summer, where hot nights, cold drinks and colorful characters provided enough education, insight and insanity to keep her notebook filled. She accepted a job with the Key West Citizen newspaper a month after graduation in 1998, and upon arrival, ceremoniously discarded the ice scraper from the trunk of her car. People from all over the world, with a similar affinity for the Southernmost City, like what she writes, and she's been doing it for nearly two decades. Mandy returns to her amazing parents and her roots "down the Shore" for a few weeks every summer, but still loves life in Key West, wearing flip flops in February and never once needing that old ice scraper. In 2010, an accomplished Keys fisherman reeled in the writer. Capt. Stan Miles stole Mandy's heart, and in 2010, she took his name. Mandy's two "Tan Lines" books and her latest "Key West Dos & Dont's: 100 Ways to Look Like a Local" are available at amazon.com and in Key West at Key West Island Books, the Key West International Airport and a variety of local retailers. See less