Nancy Mitchell is the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Salisbury, MD, and a 2012
Pushcart Prize winner. She is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Near Surround,
Grief Hut, and The Out-of-Body Shop, and co-editor of Plume Interviews 1. She was a
2019 guest on The Poet and The Poem broadcast from the Library of Congress.
Her poems have appeared in Agni, Green Mountains Review, Poetry Daily, Washington
Square Review other journals and have been anthologized in Last Call (Sarabande Books)
The Working Poet (Autumn House Press), and Plume 3, 4, 5,6 and 7. She has received
artist-in-residency fellowships at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in San Angelo,
Virginia, and in Auvillar, France, and at the Shotpouch Creek in Oregon. Formerly a
professor of Creative Writing at Salisbury University, Maryland, and producer of the
annual literary/fine arts festival WORDSTOCK, Mitchell taught in the Maryland
Summer Center for the Arts. Mitchell is a book discussion facilitator and teaches poetry
workshops in the Worcester County Library System. She serves as Associate Editor of
Special Features for Plume Poetry. She and her husband John joined the board in Spring 2023.