Maren O. Mitchell’s poem,
“Black Cow” currently appears online,
in Wild Goose Poetry Review. Mitchell’s
poems have been published in Chiron
Review, “Waiting on Squirrels,” “Rod Spears, Gigolo,” and “Phillipa Daisy,
Dancer”; Hotel Amerika, “T
Is Totally Balanced,” and “X Is a Kiss on Paper,”; The World Is Charged: Poetic Engagements
with Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Breath and Bread” a found poem; and The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop,
“Shapeshifter” and “Intrinsic.”
Maren O. Mitchell’s poems
have appeared in Iodine Poetry Journal,
The Lake (UK), Appalachian Heritage,
The South Carolina Review, Hotel Amerika, Southern Humanities Review, Skive
(AUS), The Classical Outlook, Town Creek Poetry, Appalachian Journal, Pirene’s Fountain, Wild Goose Poetry Review
and elsewhere. Her work is included in Negative Capability Press Anthology of
Georgia Poetry, The Southern Poetry
Anthologies, V: Georgia & VII: North Carolina and Sunrise from Blue Thunder. Poems are forthcoming in Hotel Amerika and Chiron Review. Her nonfiction book is Beat Chronic Pain, An
Insider’s Guide (Line of Sight Press, 2012) www.lineofsightpress.com and is available at the Curiosity Shop
bookstore in Murphy, NC, and on Amazon.
Mitchell has taught poetry at Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock, NC, and catalogued at the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site. In 2012 she received 1st Place Award for Excellence in Poetry from the Georgia Poetry Society. For over twenty years, across five southeastern states, she has taught origami, the Japanese art of paper folding.
A native of North Carolina, in her childhood Mitchell lived in Bordeaux, France, and Kaiserslautern, Germany. After moving throughout the southeast U.S., she now lives with her husband in Young Harris, Georgia, on the edge of the national forest.
You can find the link to "Black Cow," here: https://wildgoosepoetryreview.wordpress.com/summer-2016/maren-o-mitchell-black-cow/
