title: Todd Mitchell (author)
text: # Todd Mitchell (author)
  
  Todd Mitchell (born January 8, 1974) is an American author of young adult, middle grade fiction and graphic novels. Mitchell is also an assistant professor and director of creative writing pedagogy at Colorado State University.
  
  ## Career
  
  Mitchell works as an assistant professor of creative writing pedagogy at Colorado State University, where he also serves as the Director of the Beginning Creative Writing Teaching Program. He published his first novel, The Traitor King, in 2007 through Scholastic; Mitchell would later re-release the novel in 2012 via self-publishing. Mitchell published The Last Panther through Yearling in 2017. The novel is set in an apocalyptic Florida and deals with environmental issues including climate change.
  
  In 2011 Mitchell published the story "The Guardian" in the graphic novel anthology A Flight of Angels and in 2017, began independently publishing the graphic series Broken Saviors.
  
  In 2019 film and television rights for his then as of yet unpublished book The Naming Girl were optioned by Good Neighbors Media, with Jennifer Phang named as director.
  
  