Wendell Mayo is a native of Corpus Christi, Texas. His recent story collection, Survival House (SFASU Press, 2018) was short-listed for the International Rubery Award for Fiction (UK). He is author of four more story collections: The Cucumber King of Kedainiai, winner of the Subito Press Award for Innovative Fiction; Centaur of the North (Arte Público Press), winner of the Aztlán Prize; B. Horror and Other Stories (Livingston Press); and a novel-in-stories, In Lithuanian Wood (White Pine Press). A sixth story collection, Twice-Born World: Stories of Lithuania, is forthcoming with Deerbrook Editions in 2019. Over one-hundred of his short stories have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including Yale Review, Harvard Review, Missouri Review, and more. He is recipient of a NEA Fellowship, a Fulbright to Lithuania (Vilnius University), two Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, and a Master Fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission.