Dr. Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Their work has won the Plaza Short Story Prize; has been a finalist for the Ohio State University Press Non/Fiction Prize, the Iron Horse Literary Review/Texas Tech University Press First Book Prize, the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, the Kinder-Crump Award for Short Fiction at Pleiades, and the Saints + Sinners LGBTQ Short Fiction Prize; and has been longlisted for the W.S. Porter Prize at Regal House Publishing. In addition, they were selected as an Emerging Artist by the Partners of the Arts at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Bradshaw-Mittal is an alum of the Tin House Winter workshop and the Vermont Studio Center, holds a BA in English with a minor in Creative Writing from Sam Houston State University, received an MFA in Fiction from Texas State University, and earned their PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi. In addition, they are a 2024 MASS MoCA Fellow.
They have worked on the editorial staff of Another Chicago Magazine, New Ohio Review, Mississippi Review, and, Porter House Review.
While working on their MFA and PhD, Bradshaw-Mittal was a teaching artist and curriculum developer for Art Spark Texas and Down South Word of Mouth, working with disabled and incarcerated veterans to write fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the Burdine Johnson Foundation to develop programs and curricula that assisted veterans through creative approaches to rehabilitative processes and with modes of creative expression.
Their fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can be found in Story; The Masters Review; Fairy Tale Review; F(r)iction; South Carolina Review; American Literary Review; Consequence; Lost Pilots; War, Literature, and the Arts; and other places. Their book reviews appear in the Rumpus, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere.
Originally from Texas, Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal now lives in Erie, PA, where they live with their partner and chocolate lab while teaching Creative Writing at Gannon University. Currently, they also serve as the "No Place is Foreign" Editor at Another Chicago Magazine.