Wendell Mayo
 Email: wmayo@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Home page: http://personal.bgsu.edu/~wmayo
Wendell Mayo was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1953. He completed his B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1975 at Ohio State University; his B.A. in Print Journalism in 1980 at the University of Toledo; his M.F.A. in fiction at Vermont College; and his Ph.D. in Twentieth-Century Literatures in 1991 at Ohio University. He teaches fiction writing, form and theory of fiction, and modern and contemporary literature at Bowling Green State University. He is also Chair of the Language Arts Division of American Professional Partnership for Lithuanian Education.
He is recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship for 2000-2001, and author of four books of fiction: a story collection, Centaur of the North (Arte Público Press, 1996; 2nd edition, 1999), 1997 winner of the Aztlán Prize, sponsored by Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya and the University of New Mexico, and finalist in the Violet Crown Book Awards and the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in Short Fiction; a novel-in-stories, In Lithuanian Wood (White Pine Press, 1999); B. Horror and Other Stories (Livingston Press, 1999) and Lietuvos Miske, the Lithuanian language translation on In Lithuanian Wood, forthcoming in 2003 with Mintis Press in Vilnius.
His short stories have appeared widely in over eighty magazines and anthologies, including the Yale Review, Harvard Review, Missouri Review, Threepenny Review, North American Review, Indiana Review, and New Letters. Interests: Literary fiction
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