He is author of over eighty short stories appearing in magazines and anthologies, including the Yale Review, Harvard Review, Threepenny Review, Missouri Review, Manoa, Indiana Review, New Letters, and others. He has also published on the poetry of Antanas Baranauskas; the fiction of James Joyce and John Cheever; and the films of Ingmar Bergman.
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 literatures in Bowling
Green State University's
Creative Writing Program. 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, a Creative Writing Fulbright to Lithuania (Vilnius University) for 2001-2002,
and author of three books of fiction: a story collection,
Centaur of the North
(Arte Público Press, 1996; 2nd edition, 1999),
1997 winner of the Aztlán Prize; B. Horror and Other Stories (Livingston Press, 1999); and a novel-in-stories, In Lithuanian Wood (White Pine Press, 1999), which is also in Lithuanian translation as Vilko Valanda [Engl: Hour of the Wolf] with Mintis Press in Vilnius in 2003.
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