In addition, his short stories, poetry, and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The Sunlight Press, Idle Ink, The Opiate, The Chamber Magazine, Northwest Indiana Literary Journal, The MacGuffin, Foliate Oak, Random Sample, Soft Cartel, Spelk, Furtive Dalliance, Ginosko Literary Journal, Whatever Our Souls, Down in the Dirt Magazine, Kairos Literary Magazine, Literally Stories, Corvus Review, Scarlet Leaf Review, the Bond Street Review, poems2go, The Machinery -- A Literary Collection, Baby Lawn Literature, Peachfish Magazine, The Avalon Literary Review, Random Sample, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Crack the Spine, , Fiction on the Web, Epiphany Magazine, Fringe Magazine, the Waterhouse Review, Troubadour 21, The Big Stupid Review, Eunoia Review, Greensilk Journal, Pulse Literary Journal, Blue Ships Magazine (story; poems), Wind Magazine, Litsnack, The Houston Literary Review, trans lit mag, Red Fez, the Legendary, the Fine Line, Milk Sugar, the Piker Press, new aesthetic, worldwide hippies (story; essay and poems), Wilderness House Literary Review; Midwest Literary Magazine, 63 Channels, Moronic Ox Literary and Cultural Journal (story, poems 1; poems 2; poems 3), Five Fishes Journal, Eclectic Flash, eFiction Magazine, Connotation Press, Ink Monkey Magazine, The Battered Suitcase, Blue Ships Magazine, Shorelines Literary Magazine, Greatest Lakes Review, Fiction Collective, Bracelet Charm Quarterly, First Literary Review, Poetpourri, Poetry Motel, Delirium, CWG Newsletter, Poetalk, Poet's Page, Poetic Hours, the Poetry Peddler, Poetry Forum, the Poet's Haven, the Advocate, Desperate Act, Hazmat Literary Review, Mobius, Innisfree, the Parnassus Literary Journal, Verbal Expression, Bold Print, Woven Worlds, Long Story Short, 13th Story, Unknowns, Rochester Shorts, The Rochester Times-Union, and the anthologies, Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust (Northwestern University Press, 1998), Messages from the Universe (iUniverse, 2002), America Remembered (Virgogray Press, 2010), Green (Midwest Literary Magazine, 2010), Looking Beyond (Scars Publications, 2011) Prominent Pen (dirt edition) (Scars Publications, 2011), The Lighthouse (Down in the Dirt, 2017), and The Light in the Sky (Down in the Dirt, 2017).
Mitchell Waldman's fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and has received a First Place award in the 13th Story Fiction Contest.
His short story collection PETTY OFFENSES AND CRIMES OF THE HEART was a finalist in the 2015 Bookbzz Prize Writers Competition.
Mitchell's poem "The Cold Swing" was a Pearl Prize winner in Sweetycat Press's Jewels in the Queen's Crown Best of the Best contest, judged as one of the best pieces in the press's prior publications and marked for inclusion in the Press's Jewels in the Queen's Crown anthology, published in 2022.
His story "A Karmic Questioning" was included in the Second Quarterly Review 2023 of Bewildering Stories, highlighting the best stories in the journal for the second quarter of the year.
Mitchell studied at the University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana, where he worked with authors Paul Friedman and Mark Costello, as well as at Southern Illinois University, and The University of Texas at Austin.
