C.M. Mayo is the author of "The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire," an historical novel based on extensive original research into the true story of Mexico's half-American Prince, Agustin de Iturbide y Green, and the fall of Mexico's Second Empire under Maximilian von Habsburg. Published by Unbridled Books in 2009, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire has received numerous glowing reviews, including from Publisher's Weekly, Latin American Review of Books, the Austin American-Statesman, Mexico Connect, and Library Journal, which said, "Mayo’s cultural insights are first-rate, and the glittering, doomed regime comes to life." Mayo is also the author of "Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico," a travel memoir published by Milkweed Editions in 2007; and "Sky Over El Nido," which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her many other awards iclude three Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards, and three Washington Writing Prizes. She has written for numerous literary journals, among them, Chelsea, Creative Nonfiction, Literal: Latin Ameican Voices, Kenyon Review, North American Review, the Paris Review, and Tin House.
A long-time resident of Mexico City and an avid translator of Mexican poetry and fiction, Mayo is also the founding editor of Tameme, a bilingual literary journal now operating as a chapbook press. And she is editor of an anthology "Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion," a portrait of Mexico in works by 24 Mexican writers, about half in translation for the first time, which leading Mexican poet and critic David Huerta has called "one of the outstanding contemporary works on this country." Mayo's most recent translation is a short story by Alvaro Enrigue, which appears in "Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction," published this year by Dalkey Archive.
Read more about C.M. Mayo and her work at www.cmmayo.com
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