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for C.M. Mayo
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C.M.
Mayo is the author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
(Unbridled Books), an historical novel based on the true story
and named one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2009. She is
also the author of a widely-lauded travel memoir, Miraculous
Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the
Other Mexico (Milkweed Editions) and Sky Over El Nido
(U Georgia Press), which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for
Short Fiction. A long-time resident of Mexico City and an avid
translator of Mexican poetry and fiction, she is also the editor
of an anthology of Mexican writing, Mexico: A Traveler's Literary
Companion, which Mexican poet and critic David Huerta has
called "one of the outstanding contemporary works on this
country." She divides her time between Mexico City and Washington
DC where she is on the faculty of the nearby (Bethesda Maryland)
Writers Center.
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Mayo's
other awards include three Lowell Thomas Awards, and three Washington
Writing Prizes; fellowships to the Bread Loaf, Sewanee and Wesleyan
Writers Conferences; as well as residencies at Ragdale, MacDowell,
the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo.
+ Fiction
Publications in Journals and Anthologies
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+ Nonfiction Publications in Journals and Anthologies & etc.
Business
Mexico, Inside Mexico, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal
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+ Poetry
C.M.
Mayo's poetry has been widely published in literary journals,
including Beltway, BorderSenses, Exquisite Corpse, Gargoyle,
Lyric, Natural Bridge, Saint Ann's Review, and Witness.
Her poems have also appeared in several anthologies, including
Andrei Codrescu and Laura Rosenthal's American Poets Say Goodbye
to the 20th Century, Virgil Suárez and Ryan Van Cleaves's
Red, White & Blues, and Robert Giron's Poetic Voices
without Borders and Poetic Voices without Borders 2.
In the Washington
DC area she has read in several poetry readings series, including
Joaquin Miller Cabin, Café Muse, Iota, and Kensington
Bookstore. In 2009, she was featured on Grace Cavalieri's radio
program from the Library of Congress, "The Poet and the
Poem."
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Translation
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A literary
translator specializing in contemporary Mexican fiction and poetry,
Mayo is founding editor of Tameme, a publisher of Spanish/ English
chapbooks. She is also the editor of Mexico: A Traveler's
Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press, 2006), a collection
of 24 contemporary Mexican writers. Her translations of Mexican
poetry and fiction have appeared in other anthologies including
Best of Mexican Fiction
Reversible Monuments
Three Tree Is Older Than You Are
Copper Canyon
C.M.
Mayo is a translator of Mexican contemporary poetry and fiction.
Founding editor of Tameme, the bilingual Spanish/English
journal (now a chapbook series) dedicated to new writing from
Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.
Her anthology of 24 Mexican writers, Mexico: A Traveler's Literary
Companion (Whereabouts Press, 2006)
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Teaching and Speaking
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C.M.
Mayo is the author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
(Unbridled Books, 2009), an historical novel based on the true
story; Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles
through Baja California, the Other Mexico (Milkweed Editions,
2007) and Sky Over El Nido (University of Georgia Press, 1995),
which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Mayo's stories, essays and poems have appeared in numerous U.S.
literary magazines including Chelsea, Creative Nonfiction,
Fourth Genre, Kenyon Review, The North American Review,
The Paris Review, Southwest Review, Tin House and Witness,
as well as the Los Angeles Times and Wall Street
Journal. To read some of her work on-line, please click here. To read more about
her audio-CD, "The Essential Francisco Sosa or, Picadou's
Mexico City" click
here.
Other awards include three Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards
and three Washington Independent Writers Awards, most recently
for her essay, "From
Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion." She has also been awarded
residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale Foundation,
the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and (for Sky Over
El Nido) fellowships from the writers conferences at Wesleyan,
Sewanee, and Bread Loaf.
She has participated as a workshop leader and/or panelist at
numerous writers conferences, among them, the Associated Writing
Programs Conference;
Maryland Writers Association Conference; Writers at the Beach;
Hassayampa Writers Conference; San Miguel Writers Conference
and San Miguel Writers Workshops, and the American Literary Translators
Conference.
Bio
for "Techniques of Fiction" Break-out Session, San
Miguel Writers Conference, February 2009
C.M.
Mayo is the author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire,
an historical novel based on the true story which will be published
by Unbridled Books this May; Miraculous Air: Journey of a
Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico,
a travel memoir published by Milkweed Editions in 2007; and Sky
Over El Nido, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short
Fiction.
Her fiction has appeared in numerous U.S. literary magazines
including Chelsea, Natural Bridge, Paris Review, and Southwest
Review as well as anthologies, most recently Richard Peabody's
Grace & Gravity.
A long-time resident of Mexico City and an avid translator of
Mexican poetry and fiction, she is also the editor of an anthology
of Mexican writing, Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion,
which Mexican poet and critic David Huerta has called "one
of the outstanding contemporary works on this country."
She divides her time between Mexico City and Washington DC where
she is on the faculty of the nearby (Bethesda Maryland) Writers
Center.
Bio for Panel on Publishing, San Miguel Writers Conference, February
2009
C.M.
Mayo has seen both sides of publishing, first as founding editor
of Tameme, a bilingual (Spanish/ English) literary journal,
now a chapbook series, which has published some of the most outstanding
writers and poets from Canada, the US and Mexico, including Margaret
Atwood, P.K. Page, Farley Mowat, Edwidge Danticat, A. Manette
Ansay, W.D. Snodgrass, Coral Bracho, Agustin Cadena, and Juan
Villoro.
Second, as a writer herself in several genres--- specifically,
C.M. Mayo's stories, essays and poems have appeared in numerous
U.S. literary magazines including Chelsea, Creative Nonfiction,
Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Revew, The North American Review,
Paris Review, and Witness. She is also the author
of several books including the widely-lauded travel memoir, Miraculous
Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California the
Other Mexico, new in paperback from Milkweed Editions, and
Sky Over El Nido, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for
Short Fiction. She is the editor of Mexico: A Traveler's Literary
Companion, a portrait of Mexico in a collection of 24 Mexican
writers in translation, among them, Carlos Fuentes, Fernando
del Paso, Laura Esquivel, and Angeles Mastretta, which was published
by Whereabouts Press in 2006.
Her
most recent book is an epic historical novel based on the true
and never-before completely told story, The Last Prince of
the Mexican Empire, which sold to Unbridled Books and will
be published in hardcover this May with a coast-to-coast booktour.
Mayo
also covers books, creative writing, lit-blogging, and other
subjects on her blog, "Madam Mayo".
She divides her time between Washington DC, and Mexico City.
For reading, University of New Orleans in San Miguel de Allende,
2009
C.M. Mayo is the author of The Last Prince of the Mexican
Empire, an historical novel based on extensive original research
into the true story of Mexico's half-American Prince, Agustin
de Iturbide y Green, and the fall of Mexico's Second Empire under
Maximilian von Habsburg. Published by Unbridled Books this May,
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire has already received
numerous glowing reviews, including from Publisher's Weekly,
Latin American Review of Books, the Austin American-Statesman,
Mexico Connect, and Library Journal, which said, "Mayo’s
cultural insights are first-rate, and the glittering, doomed
regime comes to life." In the Blogosphere, Bookslut
said, "After finishing this wonderful novel I have new respect
for the trials suffered by our southern neighbor in the recent
past and also a deep desire to learn more." The Last
Prince of the Mexican Empire was selected as an Indie Bound
notable book for June 2009.
Mayo is also the author of Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand
Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico, a travel
memoir published by Milkweed Editions in 2007; and Sky Over
El Nido, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short
Fiction.
A
long-time resident of Mexico City and an avid translator of Mexican
poetry and fiction, she is also the founding editor of Tameme,
a bilingual literary journal now operating as a chapbook press.
And she is editor of an anthology Mexico: A Traveler's Literary
Companion, a portrait of Mexico in works by 24 Mexican writers,
about half in translation for the first time, which leading Mexican
poet and critic David Huerta has called "one of the outstanding
contemporary works on this country." Mayo's most recent
translation is a short story by Alvaro Enrigue, which appears
in Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction, published this
year by Dalkey Archive.
NOTA BIOGRÁFICA
(con enlaces)
 C.M. Mayo es autora de la novela El
último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano
(en inglés, The
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire) que se publicó
en mayo de 2009.
Tambien es autora
de Como
gente que apareciera en sueño: viajes en Baja California
(en inglés, Miraculous
Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California,
the Other Mexico (Milkweed Editions, 2007 y University of Utah
Press, 2002), obra que el Los Angeles Times califica como
"luminosa" y el Instituto de Estudios Interamericanos
llamó el "mejor nuevo libro sobre México en
muchos años." Un capítulo, sobre su visita
al pueblo de Todos Santos, se publicó en una edición
especial bilingüe con el título The
Visitors ~ Los Visitantes (Tameme 2002). Sus ensayos
sobre México se han publicado en numerosas revistas literarias
en EU, entre ellas, North American Review, Southwest Review,
Tin House y el número especial de Creative Nonfiction,
"Mexican Voices."
Sky
Over El Nido (University
of Georgia Press, 1995), obra con la que ganó el premio
Flannery O'Connor para cuento corto, fue traducida por el poeta
y escritor mexicano, Agustín Cadena como El
cielo de El Nido (Planeta 2003). Sus relatos han sido
publicados en varias revistas literarias, entre ellas Kenyon
Review y Paris Review, además de estar
incluidos en varias antologías.
Entre otros de sus reconocimientos, C.M. Mayo fue elegida y becada
para participar en las prestigiosas conferencias de escritores
de Bread Loaf y Sewanee y ha sido galardonada con tres premios
"Lowell Thomas" para ensayos de viajes y, más
recientemente, con el premio de la Washington Independent Writers
Association 2005 por mejor ensayo ("The
Essential Francisco Sosa or, Picadou's Mexico City").
 Ávida traductora de literatura
mexicana, Mayo es editora-fundadora de Tameme,
la revista bilingüe, concepto que ha evolucionado a una
casa editorial. Sus más recientes traducciones de poesía
mexicana se encuentren en la antología de Michael Wiegers
y Mónica de la Torre, Reversible
Monuments (Copper Canyon, 2002).
 Mayo también es compiladora
de Mexico:
A Traveler's Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press, 2006),
una colección de relatos mexicanos traducidos al inglés.
Incluye obras de Carlos Fuentes, Ángeles
Mastretta, Agustín
Cadena, Fernando del Paso, Inés
Arrendondo, Carlos Monsiváis,
Laura Esquivel, Juan Villoro, y otros.
C.M. Mayo es miembro de la American
Literary Translators Association. y PEN.
C.M. Mayo nació en El Paso, Texas en 1961. Creció
en California y tiene una licenciatura y una maestría
en economía de la Universidad de Chicago. Siendo residente
de la ciudad de México durante varios años, actualmente
divide su tiempo en entre el Washington DC y el DF.
>>>Para visitar su página web en
inglés, haga clic aquí.
NOTA BIOGRÁFICA
(sin enlaces)
C.M. Mayo es autora de la
novela El último príncipe del Imperio Mexicano
(en inglés, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire)
que se publicó en mayo de 2009.
Tambien es autora
de Como gente que apareciera en sueño: viajes en Baja
California (en inglés, Miraculous Air: Journey
of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico
(Milkweed Editions, 2007 y University of Utah Press, 2002), obra
que el Los Angeles Times califica como "luminosa"
y el Instituto de Estudios Interamericanos llamó el "mejor
nuevo libro sobre México en muchos años."
Un capítulo, sobre su visita al pueblo de Todos Santos,
se publicó en una edición especial bilingüe
con el título The Visitors ~ Los Visitantes (Tameme
2002). Sus ensayos sobre México se han publicado en numerosas
revistas literarias en EU, entre ellas, North American Review,
Southwest Review, Tin House y el número especial de
Creative Nonfiction, "Mexican Voices."
Sky Over El Nido (University of Georgia Press, 1995),
obra con la que ganó el premio Flannery O'Connor para
cuento corto, fue traducida por el poeta y escritor mexicano,
Agustín Cadena como El cielo de El Nido (Planeta
2003). Sus relatos han sido publicados en varias revistas literarias,
entre ellas Kenyon Review y Paris Review, además
de estar incluidos en varias antologías.
Entre otros de sus reconocimientos, C.M. Mayo fue elegida y becada
para participar en las prestigiosas conferencias de escritores
de Bread Loaf y Sewanee y ha sido galardonada con tres premios
"Lowell Thomas" para ensayos de viajes y, más
recientemente, con el premio de la Washington Independent Writers
Association 2005 por mejor ensayo ("The Essential Francisco
Sosa or, Picadou's Mexico City").
Ávida traductora de literatura mexicana, Mayo es editora-fundadora
de Tameme, la revista bilingüe, concepto que ha evolucionado
a una casa editorial. Sus más recientes traducciones de
poesía mexicana se encuentren en la antología de
Michael Wiegers y Mónica de la Torre, Reversible Monuments
(Copper Canyon, 2002).
Mayo también es compiladora de Mexico: A Traveler's
Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press, 2006), una colección
de relatos mexicanos traducidos al inglés. Incluye obras
de Carlos Fuentes, Ángeles
Mastretta, Agustín
Cadena, Fernando del Paso, Inés
Arrendondo, Carlos Monsiváis,
Laura Esquivel, Juan Villoro, y otros.
C.M. Mayo es miembro de la American Literary Translators Association.
y PEN.
C.M. Mayo nació en El Paso, Texas en 1961. Creció
en California y tiene una licenciatura y una maestría
en economía de la Universidad de Chicago. Siendo residente
de la ciudad de México durante varios años, actualmente
divide su tiempo en entre el Washington DC y el DF.
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