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C A T I O N S BY C.M. MAYO Books The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire  a novel based on the true story, Unbridled Books "Mayo's reanimation of a crucial period in Mexican history should satisfy history buffs and those in the mood for an engaging story brimming with majestic ambition." Publisher's Weekly Selected as one of Library Journal's Best Books 2009 Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico Now available in paperback from Milkweed Editions "One of the best books ever about Baja California. Highly recommended" Library Journal Sky Over El Nido Winner, Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion Edited by C.M. Mayo: a dazzling collection of Mexican fiction and prose. "It will open your eyes, fill you with pleasure and render our perennial vecinos a little less distante." Los Angeles Times Book Review |
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Essays of Creative Nonfiction From Mexico to Miramar or, Across the Lake of Oblivion From Massachusetts Review. Finalist, Texas Institute of Letters O. Henry Award for Best Magazine Journalism. Winner, Washington Writing Prize for Best Personal Essay.  The Essential Francisco Sosa or, Picadou's
Mexico CityFrom Creative Nonfiction Magazine) Winner, Washington Independent Writers Prize for Best Personal Essay & Winner, Lowell Thomas Award. Available as an audio CD. Included in the anthology edited by Lee Gutkind, Hurricanes and Carnivals (University of Arizona Press, 2007). A Touch of Evil From Fourth Genre, winner, Lowell Thomas Award; also a chapter in Miraculous Air. Bay of Angels From Southwest Review; also a chapter in Miraculous Air. Into the Sierra de San Francisco From Brevity; also in Miraculous Air. Selected Articles  A
Traveler in Mexico: A Rendezvous with Writer Rosemary Sullivan(Inside Mexico, March 2009) Twitter Is (Literal: Latin American Voices / Voces Latinoamericanas: The social network. Digital utopia / Las redes sociales. Utopía digital. Summer 2009) In Celebration of Literal: Latin American Voices / Voces Latinoamericanas A talk given at the Feria Internacional del Libro in Guadalajara, Mexico (December 2009) |
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Short Stories The Building of Quality (The Kenyon Review)What Happened to Thelma A silly short story set in the Watergate that has a dreadful ending. From Chelsea, and most recently, Literal. Manta Ray Another silly story set in the Watergate that has a somewhat more elevated ending From Natural Bridge,and subsequently in Grace and Gravity The Jaguarundi A story about a curious cat from Sky Over El Nido. UFO, 1990 From Gargoyle Selected Poetry  Poetic
Voices Without Borders 2,
edited by Robert L. Giron (Gival Press, 2009)includes C.M. Mayo's poem "Man High" Poetic Voices Without Borders, edited by Robert L. Giron (Gival Press, 2005) includes C.M. Mayo's poem "In the Garden of Lope de Vega" Five poems in Beltway: "Bank"; "Nafta" "The Egg"; "In the New Territories"; and "The Sea is Cortes" "In the New Territories" The Green Tricycle "Man High" from BorderSenses, Winner, Washington Independent Writers Prize for Best Poem "From the Torre Latinoamericano" in Zinkzine. Picadou's People Who Pat Me & Other Puggy Poems (For children) Selected Book Reviews Fanny Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico From Tin House  Ilan Stavan's Octavio Paz: A Meditation From The Hyde Park Review of Books Sam Quinones's True Tales From Another Mexico From Wilson Quarterly Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan's The Prison Angel From Wilson Quarterly See also Madam Mayo blog for many more mini-reviews, as well as Top 10 Books Read 2008 Top 10 Books Read 2007 Top Ten Books Read 2006. |
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Translations of Mexican Poetry and Fiction Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, edited by  C.M.
Mayo. Includes translations of fiction by Agustin Cadena, Fernando
del Paso, Guadalupe Loaeza, Araceli Ardon, Monica Lavin, Juan
Villloro, and many others. Tameme,
edited by C.M. Mayo (founding editor). Originally a literary
journal, Tameme is now Tameme Chapbooks ~ Cuadernos, publishing
new writing from Canada, the United States, and Mexico in bilingual
(English / Spanish) chapbooks. Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction, edited by Álvaro Uribe and Olivia Sears, (Dalkey Archive, 2009), includes C.M. Mayo's translation of Álvaro Enrigue's short story "On the Death of the Author." New World / New Words: Recent Writing from the Americas edited by Thomas Christensen, with an introduction by Gregory Rabassa, (Two Lines World Library) includes C.M. Mayo's translation of a short story by Monica Lavin.  Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry, edited by Mónica de la Torre and Michael Wiegers (Copper Canyon 2002) includes C.M. Mayo's translations of poems by Tedi López Mills The Tree Is Older Than You Are, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye (Simon & Schuster 1994) contains C.M. Mayo's translations of poems by Eduardo Hurtado and Antonio del Toro. |
On Writing
and Publishing "Giant Golden Buddha" & 364 More Daily 5 Minute Writing Exercises A Writing Life Blog: Break the Block in Five Minutes by C.M. Mayo ForeWord Magazine Blog: Use an Egg-timer if You Must: The Five Minute Cure for Writer's Block ForeWord Magazine Blog: One Dozen Books for the Novelist's Bookshelf ForeWord Magazine Blog: Ten Tools for Organizing the Novel-in-Progress ForeWord Magazine Blog: Writers' Blogs: What Works (& What Doesn't) The Part Times (Johns Hopkins Part-Time Writing Program Newsletter) and the Writers Center's Writer's Carousel (a modified version also appeared in The Writer magazine) Out of the Forest of Noise: Publishing the Literary Short Story Madam Mayo Blog and also Work-in-Progress Blog: Ten Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Writing Workshop Madam Mayo blog (from The Writer's Carousel, winter/ spring 2009) Literary Travel Writing Roundabouts Through narrative... Why attend a bookstore reading? >>For the complete (and much more detailed) list of publications by C.M. Mayo, click here. |