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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.
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