C. M. Mayo

C.M. Mayo at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.

C.M. Mayo is an American literary journalist, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, poet, podcaster and noted literary translator of contemporary Mexican fiction and poetry.

Life

A Texas native, she was raised in Northern California and educated as an economist at the University of Chicago. She is a long-time resident of Mexico City.

Awards

Works

  • Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual (Dancing Chiva, 2014) ISBN 0-9887970-0-3
  • The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. Unbridled Books. 2009. ISBN 978-1-932961-64-5.
  • Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico. Milkweed Editions. 2007. ISBN 978-1-57131-304-1.
  • Sky Over El Nido. University of Georgia Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8203-2119-6.
  • "BANK"; "NAFTA"; "THE EGG"; "IN THE NEW TERRITORIES"; "THE SEA IS CORTÉS", The Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall 2004

Translations

  • Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion. Whereabouts Press. March 2006. ISBN 978-1-883513-15-3.

For various literary magazines and anthologies, she has translated works by Mexican writers and poets including Araceli Ardón, Agustín Cadena, Antonio Deltoro, Alvaro Énrigue, Eduardo Hurtado, Mónica Lavín, Guadalupe Loaeza, Tedi López Mills, Rose Mary Salum, Ignacio Solares, Juan Villoro, Verónica Volkow, among others.

References

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