Violet Mitchell (they/them/theirs) is a poet and artist residing in Colorado. They earned an MFA in Poetry from the Mile-High MFA Program at Regis University. Violet teaches workshops with the Tejon Collective and has had their paintings featured in art galleries and their painting called ‘Earth-like’ was selected as the book cover for Issue 2 of Inverted Syntax literary journal. Their poems have been published in Heavy Feather Review, Word for Word, South Broadway Ghost Society, along several other journals. They received the Robert A. O'Sullivan, S.J. Memorial Award for Excellence in Writing in 2019.

Violet has previously worked as a copyeditor, eBook designer, in bookstores, and in libraries. With over 120 published poems in various journals and magazines, Violet continues to write and is working on publishing a collection of poetry called “Dear Universe, Everything in Me You Eat” about space, black holes, and parallel universes. They are currently working on a graphic novel exploring gender dysphoria, euphoria, and the power of queerness. This graphic novel project will be accompanied by a custom-made tarot deck based on characters and events in the story.

When they aren’t working, Violet is most likely reading graphic novels, painting, stocking up on Halloween decorations, or snow carving with their family (the Mitchells have competed internationally representing the United States in Snow Sculpting competitions at the Carnaval de Québec in Canada!)