Judson Mitcham

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Myrtle }} Judson Mitcham (born 1948) is an American author and poet best known for being the state of Georgia's tenth official poet laureate between 2012 and 2019. He is the only writer to win the Townsend Prize for Fiction twice. His poetry is featured regularly in publications such as ''Harpers'', ''The Georgia Review'', ''The Chattahoochee Review'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', and ''Southern Poetry Review''.

In 2002, Mitcham began teaching writing workshops as a part-time professor at Mercer University. He also directed the Summer Writers' Institute at Emory University. Provided by Wikipedia