Felicia Mitchell resides in far southwest Virginia, where she teaches English and creative writing at Emory & Henry College. She has published poems, essays, and scholarly articles in a variety of publications and enjoys writing a weekly column for The Washington County News. Visit her website at feliciamitchell.blogspot.com.

In answer to our question of why she writes, Felicia responded:

"My mother used to talk about how I talked late, quite late, spending years just mulling it all over in my head. A few years after I uttered my first words (a question), I learned to write and have been writing ever since. Writing helps me on a personal level to move ideas outside my head onto the page (perhaps into somebody else’s head). On a more public level, I share what I write with an innocent faith in the power of language to connect. Many of my poems are like small documentaries filtered through the lens of my psyche."

All files © 2005-2012 Blood Orange Review