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I'm a short story writer. Check out my web site for titles, most recently, The Cucumber King of Kėdainiai, winner of the Subito Press Award for Innovative Fiction sponsored by the University of Colorado at Boulder. Look for the title in Fall of 2013!


Background Information

Wendell Mayo was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1953. He completed his B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Ohio State University; B.A. in Print Journalism at the University of Toledo; M.F.A. in fiction at Vermont College; and his Ph.D. in Twentieth-Century Literatures at Ohio University. He teaches fiction writing, form and theory of fiction, and modern and contemporary literatures. Over eighty of his short stories have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including the Yale Review, Harvard Review, Manoa, Missouri Review, Threepenny Review, Indiana Review, and Chicago Review. He has also published on the work of James Joyce, John Cheever, Ingmar Bergman, Antanas Baranauskas, and others. His awards include a Master Fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission; OAC Individual Artist Fellowship; the HarperCollins Fellowship; and resident writer appointments at the MacDowell, Djerassi Foundation, Yaddo, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and Millay Colony for the Arts. He is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literature.
  

Birth Place
Corpus Christi, TX USA
Accomplishments

Wendell Mayo is recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship for 2000-2001 and a Fulbright to Lithuania (Vilnius University) for 2001-2002. He is author of three books of fiction: a story collection, Centaur of the North (Arte Público Press), winner of the Aztlán Prize and finalist in the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in Short Fiction; B. Horror and Other Stories (Livingston Press); and In Lithuanian Wood (White Pine Press), which appeared in Lithuanian translation as Vilko Valanda [Engl: Hour of the Wolf] with Mintis Press in Vilnius in 2003.

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Wendell Mayo's newest collection of fiction, The Cucumber King of Kėdainiai, is winner of the Subito Press Award for Innovative Fiction sponsored by the University of Colorado at Boulder. Look for the title in Fall of 2013!

Contact Information
Creative Writing Program, Dept. of English
Bowling Green State University 
Bowling Green OH 43525   USA
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