[2] In 2002, Mitcham began teaching writing workshops as a part-time professor at Mercer University.
[4] When he was 16, Judson Mitcham was involved in a car accident while driving a Chevrolet Corvair, which caused the death of one of his friends.
His first published poetry collection, Somewhere in Ecclesiastes, won him both the Devins Award and the Georgia Author of the Year.
[7] Mitcham stated that he wrote "narrative poems", and thus switching from poetry to fiction was a natural one.
His poems and novels are set in Georgia, and the themes of his works include family, loss, age, and spirituality.