A new edition of Waldman's latest story collection, Brothers, Fathers, and Other Strangers (previously published by Adelaide Books) was released in January, 2023. Of the work readers have said "Waldman has crafted a nuanced and engaging collection. His stories set us on an emotional tightrope, daring us to forgo a safety net, while seducing us to look down and discover who we are. Sometimes poignantly devastating, and other times savagely funny, he guides us through family trauma, corporate America, and faithful understanding to remind us if we can be less of a stranger to the world, maybe we can be less of a stranger to ourselves." (Josh Penzone, author of The Court of Vintage Woods: Linked Stories). Readers have also said that "Brothers, Fathers, and Other Strangers is remarkable for its scope, honesty, imagination, social sensitivity, and moral concern." (Robert Wexelblatt, author of The Thirteenth Studebaker, Hsi-wei Tales, etc.) And it has been said that "[I]n Brothers, Fathers, and Other Strangers, Waldman explores masculinity, but not stereotypical masculinity. In these stories, you will see men battling their memories and emotions as they attempt to come to grips with their pasts and make a way for their lives. Waldman sets his work in reality with a dash of fantasy and the occasional twist ending. Waldman is doing something special in the short story form, and his stories will entertain, enlighten, and elate." (Hardy Jones, author of Resurrection of Childhood: A Memoir, and Every Bitter Thing). For more information on the book, visit https://mitchwaldman.homestead.com/Broth... .
Waldman is also the author of the short story collection Petty Offenses and Crimes of the Heart (originally published by Wind Publications, August, 2011), and the novel A Face in the Moon (Writer's Club Press, 2000).
Waldman's short stories, essays, and poems have appeared in numerous publications, including, among others, Bright Flash Literary Review, The Sunlight Press, Idle Ink, the Inner Circle Writers Magazine, CommuterLit, The Piker Press, Impspired Magazine, The Opiate, The Chamber Magazine, Northwest Indiana Literary Journal, Short Story Town, Bewildering Stories, Anser Journal, Alien Buddha Press, Brown Bag, X-RAY Literary Magazine, Adelaide Literary Journal, Ariel Chart, Academy of the Heart and Mind, LitGleam, Potato Soup Journal, The MacGuffin, A Story in 100 Words, Five Fishes Journal, The Fear of Monkeys, Fictive Dream, Adelaide Literary Magazine, The Magnolia Review, Door is a Jar Magazine, Furtive Dalliance, Spelk, Soft Cartel, The Fringe, Blue Ships Magazine, Ginosko Literary Journal, The Flash Fiction Press, Greatest Lakes Review, Kairos Literary Magazine, Midwest Literary Magazine, Whatever Our Souls, Literally Stories, Random Sample, Corvus Review, Scarlet Leaf Review, The Cynic Online, poems2go, The Machinery -- A Literary Collection, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Bond Street Review, Baby Lawn Literature, Peachfish Magazine, Story Shack, The Avalon Literary Review, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Crack the Spine, Danse Macabre, Writing Raw, Alfie Dog Fiction, The Faircloth Review, Wind Magazine, The Waterhouse Review, Eunoia Review, Troubadour 21, Litsnack, Fiction on the Web, The Fine Line, The Greensilk Journal, Red Fez, The Houston Literary Review, Milk Sugar, Wilderness House Literary Review, Connotation Press, new aesthetic, worldwide hippies, Girls with Insurance, Long Story Short, (Short) Fiction Collective, The Legendary, Eclectic Flash, The Battered Suitcase, eFiction Magazine, Shorelines Literary Magazine, HazMat Review, Innisfree, Mobius, Poetpourri, The Poet's Haven, The Advocate, Desperate Act, Poetry Motel, Malcontent, 13th Story, Ink Monkey Magazine, Bracelet Charm Quarterly, Rochester Shorts, Unknowns Magazine, and The Rochester Times-Union.
His work has also been anthologized in Beyond Lament: Poets of the World Bearing Witness to the Holocaust (Northwestern University Press, 1998), Messages From the Universe (iUniverse, 2002), America Remembered (Virgogray Press, 2010), Green (MLM, 2010), Looking Beyond (Scars Publications, 2011), The Lighthouse (Scars Publications, 2017), Lockdown's Over (Scars Publications, 2021), The Alien Buddha Gets a Real Job (Alien Buddha Press, 2021), The Alien Buddha Skips The Party (Alien Buddha Press, 2021), Around the World: Landscapes & Cityscapes: 200 Poems from Poets Around the World (Sweetycat Press, 2021), Jewels in the Queen's Crown (Sweetycat Press, 2022), and The Gift ( Sweetycat Press, 2022).
Waldman's fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.
Waldman was also co-editor (with his partner, Diana May-Waldman) of the anthologies Hip Poetry (originally published by Wind Publications, 2012; republished 2019, Blue Lake Review) and Wounds of War: Poets for Peace (originally published in 2006/republished 2019, Blue Lake Review).
He studied fiction writing with Mark Costello and Paul Friedman at the University of Illinois as an undergraduate.
Mitchell also serves as Fiction Editor for Blue Lake Review (http://bluelakereview.weebly.com).