Mark Maynard
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Mark Maynard
grew up on the north shore of Lake Tahoe in Incline Village, NV, a very
small town that blessed him with enough quirky characters from an early
age to populate a lifetime of stories. He left the slopes of Tahoe for
the shores of the Pacific, attending college at the University of San
Diego. After graduation, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he
worked at several fledgeling dot-coms and one globally-dominating video
game company where he met his wife, Pam. They moved back to Northern
Nevada several years ago to raise a family and he worked for the Swift
Communications family of newspapers as a columnist (writing the Planks vs. Boards column in the Tahoe and Vail papers as well as the Tahoe Powderhound newsletter) an editor (including the Sierra Sun
in his birthplace of Truckee, CA) and an online manager, until he began
teaching Composition, Fiction and Creative Writing at Truckee Meadows
Community College.
Mark earned his MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Antioch University Los Angeles. His short fiction has been selected as runner up in the Our Stories Gordon Fiction Contest and as honorable mention in the Torrey House Press Winter 2011 Fiction Contest. His work has also appeared in Shelf Life Magazine, The Duck and Herring Pocket Field Guide, the Tall Grass Wild Things Anthology and the Novel and Short Story Writer's Market 2010. Mark is the Fiction Editor for The Meadow literary journal for which he has interviewed authors including Alyson Hagy, Jillian Lauren and Kim Barnes. He lives in Reno, NV with his wife and two sons, and can sometimes be found performing stand-up comedy at the Third Street Bar in downtown Reno.
Mark earned his MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Antioch University Los Angeles. His short fiction has been selected as runner up in the Our Stories Gordon Fiction Contest and as honorable mention in the Torrey House Press Winter 2011 Fiction Contest. His work has also appeared in Shelf Life Magazine, The Duck and Herring Pocket Field Guide, the Tall Grass Wild Things Anthology and the Novel and Short Story Writer's Market 2010. Mark is the Fiction Editor for The Meadow literary journal for which he has interviewed authors including Alyson Hagy, Jillian Lauren and Kim Barnes. He lives in Reno, NV with his wife and two sons, and can sometimes be found performing stand-up comedy at the Third Street Bar in downtown Reno.
Mark's first collection of short stories Grind, published by Torrey House Press is now available at your local independent bookstore and online.
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Check out the News and Events page for the latest about the book, author events, readings and more.