Matthew P. Mayo

Matthew P. Mayo is an American author of novels and non-fiction books for children and adults, as well as poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews. He writes about the American West as well as New England, and in the Western, humor, crime, and horror genres.[1]

Matthew P. Mayo
Mayo in 2013
OccupationNovelist, poet, non-fiction writer, short story writer
NationalityAmerican
EducationBachelor's degree, Master of Fine Arts degree
Alma materLyndon State College and Goddard College
Period2007 - present
GenreWestern, humor, crime, and horror
SpouseJennifer Smith-Mayo
Website
matthewmayo.com

Mayo's novel, Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival (Five Star Publishing, 2017), was awarded the 2018 Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.[2] Stranded was also awarded the 2018 Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Fiction by the Western Writers of America[3] and the 2018 Peacemaker Award for Best Western YA/Children's Fiction by Western Fictioneers.[4] His novel, Tucker’s Reckoning, won the 2013 Spur Award for Best Western Novel from Western Writers of America.[5] His short story, “Half a Pig,” from the 2010 anthology, A Fistful of Legends, was nominated for the Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Short Fiction. His 2011 short story, “Scourge of the Spoils,” from the DAW Books anthology, Steampunk’d, was nominated for Western Fictioneers’ Peacemaker Award. He also wrote a number of novels for the long-running “Slocum” and “Ralph Compton” series of Western novels, published by Penguin Books.

He is a longtime periodicals editor, and has worked on a number of magazines in various editorial capacities, including Down East, the Magazine of Maine; Fly Rod & Reel; Miami Living; Big Sky Journal; and Western Art & Architecture.

Education and personal life

Mayo earned his B.A. in English at Lyndon State College, in Lyndonville, Vermont, and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont.

Matthew P. Mayo lives in Maine with his wife, photographer and videographer Jennifer Smith-Mayo, with whom he runs Gritty Press.[6] They have collaborated on a number of projects, including a trio of coffee-table books about New England's northernmost states: Vermont Icons; New Hampshire Icons; and Maine Icons.[7]

Bibliography

Novels

  • Winters’ War (2007)
  • Wrong Town (A Roamer Western) (2008)
  • Hot Lead, Cold Heart (2008)
  • Dead Man’s Ranch (2012) (A Ralph Compton Western)
  • Hot Lead, Cold Heart (2012)
  • Tucker’s Reckoning (2012) (A Ralph Compton Western)
  • The Hunted (2013) (A Ralph Compton Western)
  • Double Cross Ranch (2014) (A Ralph Compton Western)
  • Shotgun Charlie (2015) (A Ralph Compton Western)
  • The Outfit (Book 1): To Hell and Back (2016)
  • North of Forsaken (A Roamer Western) (2017)
  • Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival (2017)
  • The Outfit (Book 2): Blood and Ashes (2018)
  • Timberline (A Roamer Western) (2018)

Non-Fiction

  • Cowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West (2009)
  • Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Hardscrabble New England (2010)
  • Maine Icons: 50 Classic Icons of the Pine Tree State (2011)
  • Sourdoughs, Claim Jumpers & Dry Gulchers: Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of Frontier Prospecting (2012)
  • Vermont Icons: 50 Classic Symbols of the Green Mountain State (2012)
  • New Hampshire Icons: 50 Classic Symbols of the Granite State (2012)
  • Haunted Old West: Phantom Cowboys, Spirit-Filled Saloons, Mystical Mine Camps, and Spectral Indians (2012)
  • Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in New England History (2013)
  • Myths and Mysteries of New Hampshire: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained (2014)
  • Hornswogglers, Fourflushers, and Snake-Oil Salesmen: True Tales of the Old West’s Sleaziest Swindlers (2015)

Short Stories

Mayo's short stories have been collected in a variety of anthologies, including:

  • “A Small Thing” in The Trading Post & Other Frontier Stories, A Five Star Anthology (2018, edited by Hazel Rumney)
  • “Roadside Attraction” in Somewhere, Sometime … Lowestoft Chronicles 2014 Anthology (2014, edited by Nicholas Litchfield)
  • “Pay the Ferryman” in Livin’ On Jacks and Queens (2013, edited by Robert J. Randisi)
  • “Chapter One” in Wolf Creek, Book 7: The Quick and the Dying, a multi-author novel published by Western Fictioneers under the name "Ford Fargo" (2013)
  • “Call of the Arctic Siren” in The Avenger: Roaring Heart of the Crucible (2013, edited by Nancy Holder & Joe Gentile)
  • “Chapter Five” in Wolf Creek, Book 3: Murder in Dogleg City, a multi-author novel published by Western Fictioneers under the name "Ford Fargo" (2012)
  • “O Unholy Night: A Roamer & Maple Jack Tale” in Six-Guns and Slay Bells: A Creepy Cowboy Christmas (2012, Western Fictioneers)
  • “Lost Valley of the Skoocoom: A Maple Jack Tale” in Beat to a Pulp: Round 2 (2012, edited by David Cranmer and Matthew P. Mayo)
  • “The Folly of Flight” in Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook (2012, edited by Howard Hopkins)
  • “The Horrors of Expectation” in Bad Austen: The Worst Stories Jane Never Wrote (2011, edited by Peter Archer and Jennifer Lawler)
  • “Catch As Catch Can: A Maple Jack Tale” in The Traditional West: A Western Fictioneers Anthology (2011, Western Fictioneers)
  • “The Witch Hole” in How the West Was Weird, Vol. II (2011, edited by Russ Anderson, Jr.)
  • “Maple Jack and the Christmas Kid” in Christmas Campfire Companion: Short Stories from Today’s Top Western Writers (2011, edited by Chila Woychik)
  • “Get Teague!” in Needle: A Magazine of Noir, Issue #3/Winter/Vol I (2010, edited by Steve Weddle)
  • “Scourge of the Spoils” in Steampunk’d (2010, edited by Jean Rabe and Martin H. Greenberg)
    • “Scourge of the Spoils” also appeared in Western Fictioneers Presents: Peacemaker Tales (2013) and Western Fictioneers Presents: Peacemakers, Vol. 3 (2013)
  • “Been a Long Time” in Timeshares (2010, edited by Jean Rabe and Martin H. Greenberg)
  • “Half a Pig” in A Fistful of Legends: 21 All-New Blazing Tales of the Old West (2010, edited Nik Morton)
  • “Kin” in Out of the Gutter 5: The Modern Journal of Pulp Fiction and Degenerate Literature (2008, edited by Matthew Louis)
  • “Snows of Montana” in Where Legends Ride: New Tales of the Old West (2007, edited by Matthew P. Mayo)

Awards

Won

  • 2013 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Novel, Tucker’s Reckoning
  • 2017 LitPick 5-Star Award for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival[8]
  • 2018 Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival[9]
  • 2018 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Fiction for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival[10]
  • 2018 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best Western YA/Children's Fiction for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival[11]
  • 2018 Willa Award for Best Historical Fiction, Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival[12]

Nominated

  • 2010 Western Fictioneers’ Peacemaker Award for Short Fiction, “Scourge of the Spoils”
  • 2011 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Short Fiction, “Half a Pig”
  • 2018 Will Rogers Medallion Award Finalist for Western Fiction Young Readers, Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival[13]
  • 2018 High Plains Book Award Finalist for Young Adult Book, Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival[14]

References
  1. "Book review: Stranded by Matthew P. Mayo". www.lep.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  2. "Mayo wins Western literary award - Waldo VillageSoup". Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  3. "Winners « Western Writers of America". westernwriters.org. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  4. Reasoner, James (2018-06-15). "Western Fictioneers: Western Fictioneers Announces the 8th Annual Peacemaker Award Winners". Western Fictioneers. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  5. "Winners « Western Writers of America". westernwriters.org. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  6. Boggs, Johnny D. "Author Matthew P. Mayo". HISTORYNET. Wild West Magazine. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  7. Gardner, Jan (2011-06-26). "Maine by the numbers". Boston.com. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  8. "Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival review by jotaf". LitPick. 2017-04-27. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  9. "Western Heritage Awards 2018 Winners - National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum". National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Retrieved 2018-02-20.
  10. "Western Writers of America Announces 2018 Spur Award Winners". www.prnewswire.com. Western Writers of America. Retrieved 2018-03-11.
  11. "Western Fictioneers". www.westernfictioneers.com. Retrieved 2018-06-22.
  12. "Women Writing the West - Willa Finalists". www.womenwritingthewest.org. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  13. "Will Rogers Medallion Awards | Press Release WRMA 2018". Will Rogers Medallion Awards. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  14. "2018 Finalists – High Plains Book Awards". www.highplainsbookawards.org. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
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