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Malcolm Dean Mitchell

Malcolm Dean Mitchell is an MFA candidate at the University of Houston, where he holds an Inprint Brown Foundation Fellowship and edits poetry for Gulf Coast. He is the 2026 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize winner in poetry. His work appears in Barrow Street, DMQ Review, and elsewhere.

Poetry

  • A Beach, the Beach

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