PUBLICATIONS
BY C.M. MAYO
Books
The Last Prince of the Mexican
Empire, a
novel based on the true story, is forthcoming in 2009.
Miraculous
Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles
through Baja California, the Other Mexico
Now available
in paperback from Milkweed Editions
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
Carlos Fuentes, Juan Villoro, Angeles Mastretta, Laura Esquivel
& others
Tameme
The bilingual
(English/ Spanish) journal now a chapbook press |
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This page
also has links to a selection of essays, reviews, stories and
poems by C.M. Mayo available on-line (scroll on down)... |
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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 City
From 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.
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
~ Flash Fictions
Poetry
~ Poetic
Voices Without Borders,
edited by Robert L. Giron (Gival Press, 2005) contains 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.
For
Children
~ Picadou's
People Who Pat Me & Other Puggy Poems
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 |
Translations
of Mexican Poetry and Fiction
~ Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, edited by C.M. Mayo
~ Tameme, edited by C.M. Mayo
~ 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
~ Out
of the Forest of Noise: Publishing the Literary Short Story
~ Daily
5 Minute Writing Exercises |
Where to buy C.M. Mayo's books and CDs?
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