Judson Mitcham
Judson Mitcham’s work has appeared in many literary journals, including Georgia Review, Poetry, and Harper’s. Somewhere in Ecclesiastes(1991, University of Missouri Press), his first collection of poems, won the Devins Award, and his novel, Sweet Everlasting(1996, University of Georgia Press), won the Townsend Prize and was a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Award. This April Day, his second collection of poems, was published in 2003 by Anhinga press, and his second novel, Sabbath Creek, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2004. Mitcham has received fellowships from the NEA and the Georgia Council for the Arts. He recently retired from Fort Valley State University after teaching psychology there for many years.
For more information, read the Mitcham biography and view video clips of several readings on the New Georgia Encyclopedia site.