Steve Mitchell is a winner of the Curt Johnson Prose Prize, judged by Lily King, the Lorian Hemingway International Short Story Prize, and the Association of Alternative Media’s 2017 Award for Best LGBT Coverage (with Deonna Kelli Sayed). His short stories and essays have been featured in December Magazine, the Southeast Review, Red Fez, Contrary, the North Carolina Literary Review, and others. His short story collection, The Naming of Ghosts, is published by Press 53. 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, Deonna Kelli Sayed, a writer, and Zip, a cat.