WriterJudith Claire Mitchell

Judith Claire Mitchell is the author of the novel The Last Day of the War, which the New York Times called "blistering" and "intelligent," singling out for praise "the skill with which Mitchell assembles the pieces of her story and the light touch with which she incorporates thorny issues of prejudice and national identity into what is essentially a historical spy novel. It's a bravura performance..." Judy is currently completing a second historical novel based on the lives of several German-Jewish chemists who lived and worked between the first and second world wars. Her short fiction has appeared in journals such as Prairie Schooner, The Iowa Review, and StoryQuarterly. The recipient of fellowships and scholarships from the Michener/Copernicus Society, Bread Loaf, the Wisconsin Arts Institute, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Judy is currently a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Program in Creative Writing where she teaches undergraduate and graduate level fiction workshops, seminars in creative writing pedagogy, and literature courses in the American short story.