B K Mayo's short fiction has appeared in literary journals and story collections. His novel "Tamara's Child" was a finalist in the Popular Fiction category of the 2010 National Indie Excellence Book Awards. Although he writes mostly fiction, his newspaper column "Now That I Think About It," which appeared in Roseburg, Oregon's The News-Review, was widely praised. Mayo and his wife live in an area of southwestern Oregon known as "the hundred valleys of the Umpqua."
