Tim Mayo's Biography

Tim Mayo holds an ALB, cum laude, from Harvard University and an MFA from The Bennington Writing Seminars.  His poems and reviews have appeared in Atlanta Review, Arbutus, Avatar Review, Big Toe Review, The Brattleboro Reformer, The Chrysalis Reader, 5 AM, Inertia Magazine, Mannequin Envy, Poetry International, Poet Lore, Verse Daily, Verse Wisconsin, Web Del Sol Review of Books, The Worcester Review and The Writer’s Almanac as well as many other print and on-line journals. 

Among the awards his poems have garnered are two International Merit Awards from Atlanta Review and a mention as a finalist in the 2007 Winning-Writers.com War Poetry Contest.  He has been twice nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology, once for a Pushcart Prize and named as one of five top finalists for the prestigious Paumanok Award.  In 2000 he was a semi-finalist in the  “Discovery"/The Nation Poetry Contest, and he has been awarded two fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center’s annual Vermont Artist’s Week. 

His chapbook, The Loneliness of Dogs (Pudding House Publications 2008), was a finalist in the WCDR 2008 Chapbook Challenge in Ajax, Ontario, Canada, and his most recent publication, The Kingdom of Possibilities (Mayapple Press), was a semi finalist for the 2009 Brittingham and Pollock Awards, a finalist for the 2007 Main Street Rag Award, a finalist for 2009 May Swenson Award.

He lives in Brattleboro, Vermont where he is a member of the Brattleboro Literary Festival author selection committee and works as a substitute teacher for the Windham Southeast Supervisory Union and the Bridges Program at the Brattleboro Retreat.