Award-winning literary journalist, novelist, and literary translator C.M. Mayo has been living in and writing about Mexico for over 25 years.

Her most recent books are METEOR, which won the Gival Press Award for Poetry, and METAPHYSICAL ODYSSEY INTO THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION: FRANCISCO I. MADERO AND HIS SECRET BOOK, SPIRITIST MANUAL (Dancing Chiva), which won the National Indie Excellence Award for History.

Mayo is also the author several other books about Mexico, including THE LAST PRINCE OF THE MEXICAN EMPIRE (Unbridled Books), an historical novel based on a true story and named a Library Journal Best Book of 2009; MIRACULOUS AIR: JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES THROUGH BAJA CALIFORNIA, THE OTHER MEXICO (University of Utah Press and Milkweed Edition); and SKY OVER EL NIDO, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.

Her shorter works have been published in numerous literary magazines, among them, Creative Nonfiction, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, Southwest Review, and Tin House.

Mayo's translations of Mexican contemporary literature have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, most recently, Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic (Small Beer Press) and Best Contemporary Mexican Fiction (Dalkey Archive). Her own anthology, of 24 Mexican writers, is MEXICO: A TRAVELER'S LITERARY COMPANION (Whereabouts Press).

Born in El Paso, Texas, raised in northern California, she was educated at the University of Chicago. She has been a resident of Mexico City for over 25 years. She is currently at work on a book about the Big Bend region of Far West Texas, and apropos of that, hosting the Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project.