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Mark Mayer

Mark Mayer
Mark Mayer’s debut collection, Aerialists, won the Michener Copernicus Prize. Individual stories have appeared or are forthcoming in American Short Fiction, Guernica, Colorado Review, MidAmerican Review, and New Stories from the Midwest. From 2012 to 2014, he lived at Cornell College’s Center for the Literary Arts as the Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer. Mayer has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Teaching-Writing Fellow and won the Prairie Lights Prize for both fiction and poetry. He is a current PhD candidate at the University of Denver.


My Name is Fritz Mayer: An Account of Buchenwald

"These were terrible hours, when we waited for our names to be called."
January 25, 2019  By Mark Mayer
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