About the Author:

John Mitchel is a writer living in Central Arkansas where he is currently pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing. He writes poetry and short fiction. John is an Indiana native and a graduate of Purdue University. In his spare time he teaches college composition, strength trains, and attends his collections of cigars and video games. John began writing a few years ago. He stumbled upon the work of Charles Bukowski which taught him a new way of looking at writing and literature. John lived out his own odyssey when his short story “A Corndog for the Almighty God” was accepted into Long Distance Drunks: A Tribute to Charles Bukowski available here.