Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University

Wendell Mayo, Professor of Creative Writing and Literature, is native of Corpus Christi, Texas. 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. He is recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Fulbright to Lithuania (Vilnius University). 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 a novel-in-stories, In Lithuanian Wood (White Pine Press), which appeared in Lithuanian translation as Vilko Valanda [Engl: Hour of the Wolf] with Mintis Press in Vilnius. 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.

For additional information and to hear the author read from his work, please visit Dr. Mayo's website at http://personal.bgsu.edu/~wmayo.