Dr. Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal (they/them) writes queer, working-class prose and poetry. Their work has won the Plaza Short Story Prize; been a finalist for the AWP Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize, 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, the Charles Simic Poetry Prize, and the Saints + Sinners LGBTQ Short Fiction Prize, among others; and longlisted for the W.S. Porter Prize at Regal House Publishing.
Dr. Bradshaw-Mittal’s work has been supported by Community of Writers, MASS MoCA, the Vermont Studio Center, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and Tin House. They hold a BA in English from Sam Houston State University, an MFA in Fiction from Texas State University, and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi.
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; Third Coast; The Masters Review; Fairy Tale Review; F(r)iction; South Carolina Review; Consequence; Lost Pilots; War, Literature, and the Arts; and other places. Their book reviews appear in the Rumpus, Barrelhouse, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere.
They previously served as the Managing Editor of New Ohio Review, the "No Place is Foreign Editor" at Another Chicago Magazine, an Assistant Editor for Mississippi Review, the Nonfiction Editor for Product, and the inaugural Field Notes Editor for Porter House Review.
They currently serve as the Managing Editor for the Best of the Net Anthology at Sundress Publications.