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November 2011: the first English translation of the secret book by the leader of Mexico's 1910 Revolution: Francisco I. Madero's Spiritist Manual.

>>Visit the book's website, with Q & A, excerpts, podcasts, resources for researchers, a biographical note about Francisco I. Madero, and more.
An avid translator of contemporary Mexican fiction and poetry, C.M. Mayo is the founding editor of Tameme, the bilingual (Spanish/English) literary journal, now a chapbook press. Her anthology of Mexican fiction in translation, Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, was published by Whereabouts Press in March 2006.

Complete List of Published and Forthcoming Translations

(All contemporary Mexican literature, from Spanish to English, unless noted)

Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press, 2006)
A portrait of Mexico in a collection of contemporary Mexican fiction and literary prose. Includes works by Carlos Fuentes, Angeles Mastretta, Rosario Castellanos, Fernando del Paso, Carlos Monsivais, and many others.

By author (alphabetical order)

— Araceli Ardón
"It Is Nothing of Mine" (short story) in Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, (Whereabouts Press 2006)

— Luis Alberto Ambroggio (Argentine-American)
Difficult Beauty (Selected Poems 1987-2006), by Luis Alberto Ambroggio, edited by Yvette Neisser Moreno (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2009), contains translations by C.M. Mayo: "Deadlines"; "The Story"; "The Fallen."

— Agustín Cadena
"Lady of the Seas" (short story) Terra Incognita, 2004 and in
Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press, 2006) and in Exile: The Literary Quarterly, Autumn 2010.

"An Avocado from Michoacán" (short story) (Tameme Chapbook / Cuaderno #1, 2007)



"Parque Murillo" (short story) is in the anthology Three Messages and a Warning, edited by Eduardo Jiménez Mayo and Chris N. Brown (Small Beer Press, 2011).

"The Vampire," (short story) forthcoming

"Why I Read" (essay), forthcoming, Chatahoochie Review, 2011







— Álvaro Enrigue
"On the Death of the Author" (short story) in Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction, edited by Álvaro Uribe and Olivia Sears, (Dalkey Archive, 2009)

—Fernando del Paso
"The Emperor in Miravalle" excerpt from a chapter in the novel Noticias del Imperio, in Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press, 2006)

—Antonio Deltoro
Poems: "Cats"; "Kites," in Noise of Dreams/Ruido de Sueños, Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia, 1994; "The Plaza,"The Tree Is Older Than You Are, poetry and short stories from Mexico, Naomi Shihab Nye, editor, (Simon & Schuster, 1995)

—Eduardo Hurtado
Poems: "The Moth"; "Balloon,"Noise of Dreams/Ruido de Sueños, Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia, 1994; "The Fly"; "Balloon,"
The Tree Is Older Than You Are, poetry and short stories from Mexico, Naomi Shihab Nye, editor, (Simon & Schuster, 1995)

—Mónica Lavín
"Day and Night" (short story) in Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press 2006); also in New World / New Words: Recent Writing from the Americas— a Bilingual Anthology, ed. Thomas Christensen with a forward by Gregory Rabassa (Two Lines, 2008)

—Guadalupe Loaeza
"Oh Polanco!" (Literary prose) in Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Whereabouts Press 2006)

—Tedi López Mills
Poems: "Advertisement"; "Letter"; "On Reading Virgil,"
Reversible Monuments, Mónica De la Torre and Michael Wiegers, eds, (Copper Canyon Press, 2002)
"Island," Tameme, issue #1, 1999; "You Appear Dead to My Eyes," Noise of Dreams/Ruido de Sueños (Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia, 1994)

—Myriam Moscona
Poems: "Among the Olive Branches..." Noise of Dreams/Ruido de Sueños (Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia, 1994)

—Marianne Toussaint
Poem: "Morocco,"Tameme, issue #1, 1999

—Verónica Volkow
Poem: "In the Valley of Zapata"; "Veracruz," Noise of Dreams/Ruido de Sueños (Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia, 1994)

—Juan Villoro
"1975"(short story), Tameme, issue #3, 2003 (and with the title "One-Way Street") in Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Wheresabouts Press, 2006).


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