Peter Mitchell

Peter Mitchell is the author of the poetry chapbooks Conspiracy of Skin (Ginninderra Press, 2018) and The Scarlet Moment (Picaro Press, 2009). As a queer poet living in Lismore in Bundjalung Country, he writes poetry, memoir, short fiction and literary criticism. His writing has been or is forthcoming in international and national print and online journals, magazines and anthologies. His poetry is published in The Blue Nib (Ireland), Rabbit, Verity La, Soft Blow (Singapore) and Styluslit, among others. Conspiracy of Skin was awarded a Highly Commended in the 2019 Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry. His memoir, Fragments through the Epidemic awaits a publisher. At present, he is working on his first full collection of poetry, The Loam of Memory.