C. M. Mayo

C.M. Mayo has been living in and writing about Mexico for over twenty-five years. In 2017 she was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. Her most recent book is METAPHYSICAL ODYSSEY INTO THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION: FRANCISCO I. MADERO AND HIS SECRET BOOK, SPIRITIST MANUAL, winner of the National Indie Excellence Award for History. She is also the author of THE LAST PRINCE OF THE MEXICAN EMPIRE, an historical novel based on the true story, which was named one of the best books of 2009 by Library Journal; MIRACULOUS AIR: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico; and SKY OVER EL NIDO, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. An avid translator of Mexican contemporary poetry and fiction, her anthology of 24 Mexican writers is MEXICO: A TRAVELER'S LITERARY COMPANION. www.cmmayo.com