Mitch James is a Professor of Composition and Literature at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland, OH, the Editor-at-Large at Great Lakes Review, and the owner of The Write Methods (LLC), where he teaches therapeutic and creative writing modalities to guide others in experiencing the transformative power of the written word. Mitch is the author of the novel Seldom Seen: A Miner’s Tale (Sunbury Press), Young Men, Cry (forthcoming from Cornerstone Press), and was a finalist for the 2024 SmokeLong Quarterly Grand Micro and 2025 Blue Frog Flash Fiction Contests. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has published works across the genres of short/flash/micro fiction, poetry, and academic scholarship. You can find his latest fiction in Lost Balloon, Bending Genres, and SmokeLong Quarterly, his poetry at Shelia-Na-Gig, and his scholarship at the Journal of Creative Writing Studies and New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing.
Keep up with Mitch at mitchjamesauthor.com and @mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social