Carol Mitchell

Carol Mitchell

Carol Mitchell

Assistant Professor

Composition: linguistics; Caribbean literature; science and technology; world literature;

Carol Mitchell is a term assistant professor in the English Department. She holds an MFA from George Mason and brings to the classroom over 10 years of writing experience and expertise in a medley of disciplines including composition, education, publishing, business analysis, project management, technical writing, and software development. She is the author of several books for children, one novel for adults: What Start Bad a Mornin' (2023) and a short story collection A Good Haunting: Stories (2026).

She is the producer of Moonshine Murmurs, a podcast by StillHouse Press / Watershed Lit.

Selected Publications

A Good Haunting: Stories Fall 2026, Akashic Books

What Start Bad a Mornin' (Fiction) September 19, 2023, Central Avenue Publishing

Expanded Publication List

A Good Haunting: Stories Fall 2026, Akashic Books

"The Sunset Toll," a short story in The Caribbean Writer, Summer 2025

"Emergence,” a short story in the Gravity and Grace anthology, May 2025

"The Freezer,” a short story in The African Writer Magazine, January 2025

"Transformations,” a short story in the journal: Action, Spectacle, February 2024

What Start Bad a Mornin' (Fiction) September 19, 2023, Central Avenue Publishing

Collaborator in “Dialogue and Coalition Building in a Multidisciplinary Writing Program” in Coalition as Commonplace: Centering Feminist Scholarship, Pedagogies, and Leadership Practices, Volume 25: Issue 4 (Summer 2023)

Children's books:

Picture books: The Masquerade Dance, The Chee Chee’s Adventures series (six books), Chee Chee Makes Music, Sea Turtles, Seascapes, Marvin and the Race to the Nest

Ages 7-10: The Caribbean Adventure Series (five books, one shortlisted for the 2023 BOCAS Prize for Children's literature), Kay and Aiden in the Stolen Trumpet, and Kay and Aiden in the Tram Bell.

Young Adult Books: Barberry Hill (shortlisted for the 2016 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature) and Another Day

Grants and Fellowships

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow

Newnan Artrez Fellow

Kimmel Harding Nelson Center Fellow

Cheuse Center International Writers MFA Fellow

Courses Taught

ENGH 202: Contemporary Caribbean Literature

ENGH 302: Advanced Composition

Previous Courses 

ENGH 101: Composition

ENGH 398: Fiction Writing

ENGH 396: Intro to Creative Writing

ENGH 201: Reading and Writing about Texts

 

Education

  • MFA, Fiction, George Mason University, May 2020
  • Certificate in Professional Editing, Professional Sequence in Editing, University of California, Berkeley, April 2012
  • MBA, Information Systems and Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1995
  • BS, Accounting and Economics, University of the West Indies, Barbados, W.I., 1991