Judith Claire Mitchell is an Eng­lish pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin-Madi­son, where she directs the MFA Pro­gram in Cre­ative Writ­ing. A grad­u­ate of the Iowa Writ­ers Work­shop, Mitchell has received fel­low­ships from the James Michener/​Copernicus Soci­ety, the Wis­con­sin Insti­tute for Cre­ative Writ­ing, the Arts Insti­tute of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wis­con­sin, and else­where. She cur­rent­ly lives in Madi­son with her hus­band, artist Don Friedlich.