The Cucumber King of Kedainiai
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 KÉDAINIAI,Centaur of the North(winner of the Aztlán Prize and finalist in the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in Short Fiction),B. Horror and Other Storiesand a novel-in-stories, IN LITHUANIAN WOOD, which appears in Lithuanian translation asVilko 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, includingYale Review,Harvard Review,Manoa,Missouri Review,Prism International,Threepenny Review,Indiana Review, andChicago Review. He teaches in the BFA/MFA programs at Bowling Green State University.