Mark Maynard is the winner of the 2015 Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles. His linked short story collection, Grind, was published by Torrey House Press in 2012, and has been selected as the 2016-2017 Nevada Reads book. He is currently the Program Coordinator for Nevada Humanities, focusing on bringing Pulitzer Prize winning authors and journalists to events throughout the state. His work has been published in Lunch Ticket, Our Stories, Shelf Life Magazine, the Ploughshares Literary Boroughs blog, and the Nottingham Review (UK). He lives in Sparks, Nevada. He attended the Community of Writers in 2008. www.markmaynard.info