WENDELL MAYO is the author of Centaur to the North (Arte Público Press, 1996), which the New York Times Book Review calls “a powerful first collection.” In 1975, Mayo completed his BS in Chemical Engineering at Ohio State University and worked as an engineer. In 1980, he began to pursue his life-long ambition to write and finished his BA in Journalism at the University of Toledo. He published his first two short stories in 1984. In 1988, he completed his doctoral studies. Mayo’s works have been published in numerous magazines, including New Letters, Prairie Schooner, The Missouri Review, Exquisite Corpse, The
Chattahoochee Review and The Yale Review. His other published works include In Lithuanian Wood (White Pine Press, 1998) and B. Horror: And Other Stories (Livingston Press, 1999). In 1996, Mayo was awarded the Premio Aztlán, a national literary honor that was created by author Rudolfo Anaya (Bless Me Ultima) for literary excellence in works by Chicano writers that explore aspects of Chicano culture and experience. Mayo is the former Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He joined the creative writing faculty of Bowling Green State University in the fall of 1996.
