{"id":2718,"date":"2019-02-04T09:14:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T14:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/?page_id=2718"},"modified":"2025-11-25T08:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T13:05:39","slug":"steven-mayfield","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/steven-mayfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Mayfield"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Steven Mayfield is a past recipient of the Mari Sandoz Prize for Fiction and the author of over fifty scientific and literary publications. After a short stint as a sketch writer in Los Angeles, a twenty-year hiatus from creative writing began, during which he attended medical school at the University of Nebraska followed by post-doctoral training and teaching\/research appointments at the University of Iowa, Brown University Program in Medicine, and the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas. In those years, he published forty-two scientific articles, abstracts, chapters, and reviews, then once again began to write fiction in 1993 with short stories appearing in literary journals and anthologies over the next decade. A collection of short fiction, Howling at the Moon<\/em> (Mount Parnassus Press), was released in 2010 and Regal House became his publishing home in 2020 for four novels: Treasure of the Blue Whale <\/em>(2020), Delphic Oracle, U.S.A.<\/em> (2022), The Penny Mansions<\/em> (2023), and Sixty Seconds <\/em>(2025). A fifth RHP book, The Bank House<\/em>, will launch in 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steven\u2019s books have been honored with numerous awards, including an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal, a CIBA Mark Twain Book Awards Grand Prize ribbon, and an Independent Publishers Group Gold Medal. He currently resides in Oregon with his wife, Pam, and can order beer and wine in four languages. His wife can say, \u201cPay no attention to this man\u201d in five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steven Mayfield is a past recipient of the Mari Sandoz Prize for Fiction and the author of over fifty scientific and literary publications. After a short stint as a sketch writer in Los Angeles, a twenty-year hiatus from creative writing began, during which he attended medical school at the University of Nebraska followed by post-doctoral […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-2718","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9DpGh-HQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2029,"url":"https:\/\/regalhousepublishing.com\/clifford-garstang\/","url_meta":{"origin":2718,"position":0},"title":"Clifford Garstang","author":"Jaynie","date":"August 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Despite a vague childhood ambition to become a writer, it was only when Cliff joined the Peace Corps after college at Northwestern University that his life found direction. 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