Poet Laureate of Salisbury, Maryland, Nancy Mitchell is a 2012 recipient of the Pushcart Prize, and the author of The Near Surround, Grief Hut, and The Out-of-Body Shop. She has published in journals such as Green Mountains Review, Ploughshares and Washington Square Review, and has been awarded numerous artist residency fellowships.
She has taught Creative Writing classes for The English Department and ECO-Art Installations for the Environmental Studies Department, for which she produced exhibitions of student work. For several years, she produced the annual fine arts festival, Wordstock at Salisbury University.
She has worked for Maryland Summer Center for the Arts, Girls Innovative Academy, Worcester County Libraries, and 1 Year to Empowerment. She produces the Poets on the Plaza Reading Series and is Associate Editor for Plume Poetry Journal.
Nancy Mitchell