About C.M. Mayo

C.M. Mayo is a travel writer and novelist who was born in El Paso, Texas and (to make a very long story short) now lives in Mexico City. Her most recent works include Miraculous Air (Milkweed Editions), a travel memoir of Mexico's Baja California peninsula, and The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (Unbridled Books), a novel based on the true story.

Mayo's travel writing on Mexico has been published in the Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal, as well as literary journals including Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Massachusetts Review, and Southwest Review. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, among them, several Lowell Thomas Awards

for Travel Journalism and the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

She began podcasting in 2009 with her recorded lecture at the Library of Congress in Washington DC, on the original research behind her novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire.

To read some of C.M. Mayo's work on-line, and for a more detailed biography and list of publications, interviews, translations, and more, please visit her website, www.cmmayo.com