The official Site of award winning French Artist Rahman brigitte arlette: Wendell Mayo-Chicano Author

MEETING OF IMPORTANCE:

WENDELL MAYO

When you meet the man:

What strikes you the most in Wendell Mayo is the nobility of his character.

His words are discreet, enigmatic with a unique strength that guides you towards the light,

No matter how lost you may feel, Wendell actually makes you face the sun.

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The poems of Brigitte Arlette Rahman remind us of the precariousnesses of our futures but also the hope that lies in our present need for love and understanding; truly, these poems melt the ices of hate: "the ice melts / deeply in long dirty riddles / taking with it the seeds / of one sordid and unique / future."

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Wendell Mayo was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1953. He completed his B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1975 at Ohio State University; his B.A. in Print Journalism in 1980 at the University of Toledo; his M.F.A. in fiction at Vermont College; and his Ph.D. in Twentieth-Century Literatures in 1991 at Ohio University. He teaches fiction writing, form and theory of fiction, and modern and contemporary literature at Bowling Green State University, where he is Director of the Creative Writing Program. He is also Chair of the Language Arts Division of American Professional Partnership for Lithuanian Education.

He is recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship for 2000-2001, and author of four books of fiction: a story collection, Centaur of the North (Arte Público Press, 1996; 2nd edition, 1999), 1997 winner of the Aztlán Prize, sponsored by Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya and the University of New Mexico, and finalist in the Violet Crown Book Awards and the Associated Writing Programs Award Series in Short Fiction; a novel-in-stories, In Lithuanian Wood (White Pine Press, 1999); B. Horror and Other Stories (Livingston Press, 1999) and Paukstis Giesmininkas (English: Songbird), translated by Diana Alioniene, for publication in Lithuania by Ceklis Press (forthcoming).

His short stories have appeared widely in over seventy magazines and anthologies, including the Yale Review, Harvard Review, Missouri Review, Indiana Review, and New Letters. He has also published on the poetry of Antanas Baranauskas; the fiction of James Joyce and John Cheever; and the films of Ingmar Bergman. His awards include a Master Fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission; the HarperCollins Fellowship; resident writer appointments at the Djerassi Foundation, Yaddo Edward F. Albee Foundation, and Millay Colony for the Arts; the Eyster Prize ; and First Prize in the Mississippi Valley Review Fiction Competition.