Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal (they/them) writes queer, working-class stories, essays, and poems. Winner of the Plaza Short Story Prize, their creative work can be found in Story, The Masters Review, Fairy Tale Review, Hole in the Head Review, F(r)iction, South Carolina Review, and elsewhere. Other writing appears in The Rumpus, Barrelhouse, and additional journals. They teach creative writing at Gannon University and are the Managing Editor of New Ohio Review and the No Place Is Foreign Editor of Another Chicago Magazine.
More of their works can be fond here American Literary Review and here The Twin Bill.
Or visit their website at https://writerclaytonbradshaw.com
I lost a game of ping pong once. I was in my fifth semester as an undergrad in Huntsville, Texas, and I didn’t know my opponent well, nor did I generally play ping pong, but the opportunity to engage with someone who only moments before had been sitting in a decommissioned electric chair pushed against the wall of the karaoke… Read more →