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, where he is Director of the Creative Writing
Program.
Wendell is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing
Fellowship for 2000-2001, and author of four books of fiction:
- CENTAUR OF THE NORTH, a collection of
short stories, (Arte Público Press, 1996; forthcoming in 2nd edition), which was the 1997 winner
of the Aztlán Prize, sponsored by Rudolf
and Patricia Anaya and the University of New Mexico, and a finalist in the Violet Crown Book
Awards and the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in Short Fiction
- IN LITHUANIA WOOD, a novel-in-stories (White Pine
Press, 1999)
- B. HORROR AND OTHER STORIES (Livingston
Press, 1999)
- PAUKSTIS GIESMININKAS (English: Songbird), translated by Diana Alioniene, for
publication in Lithuania by Ceklis Press (forthcoming).
Wendell's short stories have appeared widely in over 70 magazines and
anthologies, including the Yale Review, Harvard Review, Missouri Review,
Indiana Review, and New Letters. He has been awarded lectureships seven
times by the Ministry of Education of the former-Soviet Republic of
Lithuania and the American Professional Partnership for
Lithuanian Education. He has also published on the poetry of Antanas
Baranauskas; the fiction of James Joyce and John Cheever; and the films
of Ingmar Bergman. His awards include a Master Fellowship from the
Indiana Arts Commission; the HarperCollins Fellowship; resident writer
appointments at the Djerassi Foundation, Yaddo Edward F. Albee
Foundation, and Millay Colony for the Arts; the Eyster Prize ; and First
Prize in the Mississippi Valley Review Fiction Competition.
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