Clayton L. Bradshaw-Mittal

  • Assistant Professor
    English Department
  • Totem Advisor
    English Department

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.

  • Winner of the Plaza Short Story Prize
  • Finalist, Iron Horse First Book Prize
  • Finalist, Ohio State University Press Non/Fiction Prize
  • Finalist, Press 53 Award for Short Fiction
  • Finalist, W.S. Porter Prize
  • Finalist, Kinder-Crump Award for Short Fiction
  • Finalist, Neutrino Short-Short Prize
  • PhD in Creative Writing (2023), University of Southern Mississippi, Dissertation: Soft Goodbyes Through Broken Veils
  • MFA in Fiction (2020), Texas State University, Thesis: Quietus
  • BA in English (2017), Sam Houston State University, Honors Thesis: A Creative Exploration of the Veteran Experience
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University of Cincinnati-Blue Ash (2023-2024)
  • "No Place is Foreign" Editor, Another Chicago Magazine (Present)
  • Managing Editor, New Ohio Review (2023-2014)
  • Assistant Editor, Mississippi Review (2020-2023)
  • Field Notes Editor, Porter House Review (2018-2019)

Fiction

  • Story, “The Leaky Roof,” Literary Journal, Print, 2024
  • The Masters Review, “The Two Things Blassie Knows,” Literary Journal, Online, 2024
  • Saints + Sinners: New Fiction from the Festival 2024, “The Conceptual Queerness of a Polyamorous Corndog,” Anthology, Print, 2024
  • F(r)iction, “West Texas Ghost Story,” Anthology, Print, 2024
  • South Carolina Review, “Carolina Demon Story,” Literary Journal, Print, 2024
  • The Twin Bill, “Hope in Baseball,” Literary Journal, Web, 2024
  • American Literary Review, “Brandy,” Literary Journal, Print, 2024
  • Fairy Tale Review, “The Ungrateful Dead,” Literary Journal, Print, 2023
  • The Saltbush Review, “The University,” Literary Journal, Web, 2023
  • Flash Fiction Magazine, “Jim on His Deathbed,” Literary Journal, Web, 2023
  • Remington Review, “The Vale Below the Old Pear Tree,” Literary Journal, Web, 2022
  • Collateral Journal, “How to Grieve for Hyacinths,” Literary Journal, Web, 2019
  • The Deadly Writers Patrol, “A Death in the Desert,” Literary Journal, Print, 2018
  • The Deadly Writers Patrol, “How to Care for Hyacinths,” Literary Journal, Print, 2017

Creative Nonfiction

  • Consequence, “A Letter to Myself About Culpability,” Literary Journal, Print, 2024
  • Barren Magazine, “The Rain Falls Like Democracy,” Literary Journal, Web, 2020
  • War, Literature, and the Arts, “Five-Sentence Biography,” Literary Journal, Web/Print, 2018

Poetry

  • Lost Pilots, “Borges and the Chupacabra,” Literary Journal, Print, 2024
  • r.kv.r.y journal, “The Twenty-Two,” Literary Journal, Web, 2018
  • The Deadly Writers Patrol, “Amaranthine Shame,” Literary Journal, Print, 2018
  • The Deadly Writers Patrol, “A Work of Fiction,” Literary Journal, Print, 2018

Book Reviews

  • Barrelhouse, “Islands of Feminine Creation: A Review of Elektrik, an Anthology of Caribbean Women Voices,” Book Review, Literary Journal, Web, 2023
  • The Rumpus, “Seas of Discourse: A Review of Zülfü Livaneli’s The Fisherman and His Son,” Book Review, Literary Journal, Web, 2023
  • Consequence, “The Wars We Fight At Home: Jan LaPerle’s Maybe the Land Sings Back,” Book Review, Literary Journal, Web, 2022
  • Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, “Documenting Oppression in the Age of Trump: A Review of Cyrus Cassell’s The World The Shooter Left Us,” Book Review, Literary Journal, Print, 2020

 

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