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Y O   C.M. Mayo is the author
of the novel The
Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, as well as 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.  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. 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 also blogs on books, creative writing, lit-blogging, and other subjects on her blog, "Madam Mayo".  A Texas native raised
in Northern California and a long-time resident of Mexico City,
Mayo 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. Click
here
for more about her career and publications as an economist.Currently she divides her time between Mexico City, where she offers workshops via Dancing Chiva, and Washington DC, where she is on the faculty of The Writers Center . Member, American Civil Liberties Union; Authors Guild; American Literary Translators Association; Maryland Writers Association; PEN; Womens National Book Association; The Writers Center |