Waldman was also co-editor (with his wife, poet and journalist, Diana May-Waldman, author of A Woman's Song) of the books, Wounds of War: Poets for Peace (PublishAmerica, 2006) and Hip Poetry 2012 (Wind Publications, 2012), and is Fiction Editor of Blue Lake Review.
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.