John Mauk has a Masters degree in literature from the University of Toledo and a PhD in rhetoric from Bowling Green State University. He writes and works at the intersection of rhetoric and fiction. He has three college writing textbooks, published by Wadsworth/Cengage. In 2010, his short collection “The Rest of Us” won Michigan Writer’s Cooperative Press chapbook contest, and its first story, “The Earthbound,†was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His debut novel,
Field Notes for the Earthbound, was a finalist in the Hudson Prize contest. For more info, visit
www.johnmauk.com.
