Mark Maynard's debut collection of short stories Grind was published by Torrey House Press on December 18, 2012.

Mark grew up on the north shore of Lake Tahoe in Incline Village, NV, a very small town that blessed him with enough quirky characters from an early age to populate a lifetime of stories.

Maynard is the winner of the 2015 Nevada Writers Hall of Fame Silver Pen Award and Grind is the 2016-17 Nevada Reads book as selected by the Nevada State Library and Archives.

He lives in Sparks, Nevada with his wife and their five children and teaches Composition, Fiction and Creative Writing at Truckee Meadows Community College.

Maynard is the Fiction Editor for The Meadow.