Tonya Mitchell

About Tonya Mitchell

Tonya was an avid reader as a child. There was never a time that she wasn’t reading something. When she was just 8 years old, she told her mom that she wanted to write a book. No idea what she would write, but knew she wanted to write them. To this day, she cherishes “To Kill a Mockingbird”. She still remembers the first time she read it, the color of the couch, and the way the sun was shining through the window. When she landed on this story about a woman that pretended she was insane in order to write this newspaper story, Tonya knew that she had landed on something that she was meant to write. She got her BA in journalism from Indiana University. Her short fiction has appeared in Words Undone, The Front Porch Review, and The Copperfield Review, as well as various anthologies, like Welco