MARK MAYNARD is a writer, editor, and journalist who teaches at Truckee Meadows Community College. He is an editor for The Meadow literary journal and his work has appeared in Lunch Ticket, The Nottingham Review, and the 2012 anthology Tahoe Blues: Short Lit on Life at the Lake. Maynard is the recipient of the 2015 Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award, and Grind was selected as the 2016-17 Nevada Reads book. His work has appeared in Reno News and Review and the Ploughshares “Literary Boroughs” blog, and is a contributor to The Films of Clint Eastwood: Critical Perspectives. He lives in Reno, Nevada, with his wife Molly and their five children. Grind is his debut collection of stories.