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C.M. MAYO is an independent writer, scholar, and literary translator whose works include Meteor (Gival Press Award for Poetry); Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero’s Secret Book, Spiritist Manual (Indie Excellence Award for History), and the novel based on the true story of Agustín de Iturbide y Green in the Court of Maximilian, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (a Library Journal Best Book). For many years a resident of Mexico City, Mayo is also a noted literary translator of Mexican fiction and poetry, and she is is the editor of a collection of Mexican fiction and essays, Mexico: A Traveler’s Literary Companion. Mayo’s other recognitions include the Flannery O’Connor for Short Fiction, fellowships to Bread Loaf and Yaddo, an artist residency at the Guadalupe Mountains National Park., and three Lowell Thomas Awards for travel writing. In 2017 she was elected a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. More at www.cmmayo.com
BOOKS BY C.M. MAYO
METEOR
(Gival Press Poetry Award)
METAPHYSICAL ODYSSEY INTO THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION:
FRANCISCO I. MADERO AND HIS SECRET BOOK, SPIRITIST MANUAL
(Indie Excellence Award for History)
THE LAST PRINCE OF THE MEXICAN EMPIRE
(A Library Journal Best Book)
MIRACULOUS AIR:
JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES THROUGH BAJA CALIFORNIA,
THE OTHER MEXICO
SKY OVER EL NIDO
(Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction)
MEXICO: A TRAVELER’S LITERARY COMPANION
(Anthology of 24 Mexican writers on Mexico, many in translation for the first time)
SELECTED SHORTER WORKS BY C.M. MAYO
On the Relación of Cabeza de Vaca
(from the longform essay “Dispatch from the Sister Republic or, Papelito Habla”)
Tulpa Max or, Notes on the Afterlife of a Resurrection
(Catamaran Literary Reader and Letras Libres)
In the Guadalupe Mountains
(Haiku written when Artist-in-Residence at the Guadalupe Mountains National Park, May 2017)
On Seeing as an Artist: Five Techniques for a Journey to Einfühlung
(Transcript, Women Writing the West Conference, Santa Fe, 2016)
Translating Across the Border
(Transcript, American Literary Translators Asociation Conference, Tuscon, 2015)
A Visit to Swan House
(Cenizo Journal and Letras Libres)
The Essential Francisco Sosa or, Picadou’s Mexico City
(Creative Nonfiction, Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Writing)
A Traveler in Mexico: A Rendezvous with Writer Rosemary Sullivan
(Inside Mexico)
On Writing About Mexico: Secrets and Surprises
(University of Texas El Paso Centennial Lecture, 2015)
Book Reviews
(Literal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Independent Writers, Wilson Quarterly, and more)
Translations
Mexican writers including Araceli Ardón, Agustín Cadena, Mónica Lavín, Rose Mary Salum, Ignacio Solares, and others
Marfa Mondays Podcast
24 Podcasts, 20 posted to date
Exploring Marfa, Texas and the greater Big Bend region
apropos of a book in-progress about Far West Texas
Conversations with Other Writers Podcast
An occasional series. Crunchy.
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