Irene Mitchell, a long-time teacher of English and Writing in inner city and rural New York, is the author of CLERESTORY (Sod Madres Press, 2020), FEVER (Dos Madres Press, 2019), Equal Parts Sun and Shade: An Almanac of Precarious Days (Aldrich Press, 2017), Minding the Spectrum's Business (FutureCycle Press, 2015), A Study of Extremes in Six Suites (Cherry Grove Collections, 2012), and Sea Wind on the White Pillow (Axes Mundi Press, 2009. Formerly Poetry Editor of Hudson River Art Magazine, Mitchell is known for her collaborations with visual artists and composers. Her poems have been presented for gallery exhibition as a series of broadsides, the text incorporated into the artwork. Mitchell's poetry has also been set to music for piano and voice in cycles of art-song, the marriage of music and poetry. Her earliest correspondence with poetry scholars is included in the final year's collection of the Aylesford Mss., archived in Indiana University's Lilly Library. Mitchell was a 2019 Associate Artist in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.