Steve Mitchell is an award-winning writer and journalist, published in december magazine, Southeast Review, storySouth, Red Fez,The Tishman Review, and Contrary, among others. His novel, Cloud Diary, was published by C&R Press. His book of short stories is The Naming of Ghosts from Press 53. He is a winner of the Curt Johnson Prose Prize and the Lorian Hemingway International Short Story Prize and has been nominated a number of times for the Pushcart Prize. He has a deep belief in the primacy of doubt and an abiding conviction that great wisdom informs very bad movies. He’s co-owner of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro, NC. where he lives with his partner, writer Deonna Kelli Sayed.