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BOWLING GREEN, O. - Dr. Wendell Mayo, Director of Bowling Green State University's Creative Writing Program, has received a Fulbright grant to teach in the former Soviet republic of Lithuania, the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board announced recently.

Dr. Mayo is one of approximately 2,000 U.S. grantees who will travel abroad for the 2001 - 2002 academic year through the Fulbright Program. Established in 1946 under legislation introduced by the late Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program's purpose is to build mutual understanding between the peoples of the United States and the rest of the world. While in Lithuania, Dr. Mayo will teach courses in research writing, essay writing, and short story writing, all of which emphasize the critical role of self-expression and critical thinking in free societies.

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.

Dr. Mayo 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.

The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, United States Department of State. For 55 years, Fulbright programs have exchanged nearly a quarter of a million people - 88,000 Americans, who have studied, taught or researched abroad and more than 146,000 students, scholars and professionals from other countries who have engaged in similar activities in the United States.

Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement and because they have demonstrated extraordinary leadership potential in their fields. Among the thousands of prominent Fulbright alumni are: Craig Barrett, President and CEO of INTEL; Renee Fleming, opera singer; John Lithgow, actor; Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former U.S. Senator; Robert Shaye, Founder and Chairman, New Line Cinema; and Muhammed Vunus, economist and Founder of the Grameen Bank.

For further information about the Fulbright Program or the Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, please visit our web site at http://exchanges.state.gov or contact Catherine Stearns, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, telephone (202) 619-5053 or e-mail cstearns@pdstate.gov.

Contact: Wendell Mayo
Date: August 1, 2001
Phone: 419-823-7005
E-mail: wmayo@bgnet.bgsu.edu

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