Wendell Mayo is a native of Corpus Christi, Texas. He is recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Fulbright to Lithuania, and is author of four collections: THE CUCUMBER KING OF K�DAINIAI, Centaur of the North (winner of the Aztl�n Prize and finalist in the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in Short Fiction), B. Horror and Other Stories and a novel-in-stories, IN LITHUANIAN WOOD, which appears in Lithuanian translation as Vilko Valanda (English: Hour of the Wolf) with Mintis Press in Vilnius. Over one hundred of his short stories have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including Yale Review, Harvard Review, Manoa, Missouri Review, Prism International, Threepenny Review, Indiana Review, and Chicago Review. He teaches in the BFA/MFA programs at Bowling Green State University.