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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 Milesthrough 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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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. 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. | ||||
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On Writing
and Publishing ~ Out of the Forest of Noise: Publishing the Literary Short Story ~ Daily 5 Minute Writing Exercises |
