She is also author
of the widely-lauded travel memoir, Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja
California, the Other Mexico, and Sky Over El Nido, which won the Flannery
O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
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Founding editor
of Tameme, the bilingual Spanish/English)
chapbook press, Mayo is also a translator of contemporary Mexican poetry and fiction.
Her anthology of Mexican fiction in translation, Mexico: A Traveler's
Literary Companion,
was published
by Whereabouts Press in March 2006.
Her most recent
translations
include stories by Agustín Cadena and theSpiritist
Manual
by Francisco I. Madero, leader of Mexico's Revolution of 1910.
Mayo's stories, essays and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies
and 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-CDs, "The Essential Francisco
Sosa or, Picadou's Mexico City" and "From Mexico to
Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion," 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 also blogs on books, creative writing, lit-blogging, and
other subjects on her blog, "Madam Mayo".
She is founding CEO of
Dancing
Chiva Literary Arts, S.C.,
a Mexico City-based publisher of e-books and limited editions
specializing in Bajacaliforniana, Maximiliana, and works for
writers.
Click
here
to join the Dancing Chiva Literary Arts Club (it's free) and
download your free copy of her e-book, C.M. Mayo on Creative
Writing: The Best from the Blog.
A Texas native raised
in Northern California and a long-time resident of Mexico City,
she was educated as an economist at the University of Chicago.
She previously worked at a Mexico City investment bank and ITAM,
a private university, where she taught international and development
finance in both the undergraduate and the MBA programs.
>>For more about her career
and publications as an economist, click here
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