Nancy Mitchell Wins Pushcart Prize

NANCY MITCHELL WINS PUSHCART PRIZE, SELECTED FROM JOHNSON STATE COLLEGE’S JOURNAL, GREEN MOUNTAINS REVIEW

Poet Nancy Mitchell, who visited JSC in the fall of 2010, was awarded a Pushcart Prize for her poem "Grace Notes," which appeared in Green Mountains Review.

Mitchell’s poem will be included in The Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses (2012).  The Pushcart Prize recognizes excellence in writing, in addition to editing and publishing  by small presses nationwide.  An anthology that is published every year, The Pushcart Prize: Best of Small Presses  is frequently used at many colleges and universities as a creative writing textbook.  In addition to having her worked honored and published, Nancy Mitchell will be appointed to the editorial board for all future editions.

Mitchell teaches Creative Writing at Salisbury University in Maryland.  She is the author of two books of poems The Near Surround (2002) and Grief Hut (2009). Her poems have appeared in Agni, Poetry Daily, Salt Hill Journal, Great River Review, and elsewhere.

Professor Elizabeth Powell, Editor of Green Mountains Review,  notes: “We are delighted and grateful for this recognition of excellence. Nancy Mitchell is a poet of our times, working at the height of her imaginative and technical powers. We are both proud and lucky to publish her work.”  Professor Jacob White, also an Editor at Green Mountains Review, adds: “It is especially gratifying to see a poet recognized for work that is so humble yet so deeply inhabited, so honest.”