Lee Maynard was born and raised in the
hardscrabble ridges and hard-packed mountains of West Virginia, an
upbringing that darkens and shapes much of his writing. His work
has appeared in such publications such as Columbia Review of
Literature, Appalachian Heritage, Kestrel, Reader's Digest, The
Saturday Review, Rider Magazine, Washington Post, Country America,
and The Christian Science Monitor. Maynard gained public and
literary attention for his depiction of adolescent life in a rural
mining town in his first novel, Crum, and received a Literary
Fellowship in Fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts to
complete its sequel, Screaming with the Cannibals.
An avid outdoorsman and conservationist, Maynard is a mountaineer,
sea kayaker, skier, and former professional river runner.
Currently, Maynard serves as President and CEO of The Storehouse,
an independently funded, nonprofit food pantry in Albuquerque, New
Mexico. He received the 2008 Turquoise Chalice Award to honor his
dedication to this organization.
"[Maynard] once again succeeds in delivering a devastatingly,
soul-searching, scabrous and very funny literary experience."
Michael Shannon Friedman, The Charleston Gazette"Between the first
and last pages of Screaming with the Cannibals are characters so
real you can see them bleed, smell their sweat, hear their cries of
libido-provoked frustration, wallow with them in the darkness of
their spirits and -- God help us all -- laugh when they die the
most horrible deaths."
Dave Peyton, Charleston Daily Mail
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