Life

A Texas native, C. M. Mayo was raised in Northern California and educated as an economist at the University of Chicago. She is a long-time resident of Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

, where she worked at an investment bank and at ITAM

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

The Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México , commonly known as ITAM, is a private Ph.D.-granting research university located in Mexico City, Mexico...

, a private university. At ITAM she taught international and development finance in both the undergraduate and the MBA programs.

Ms. Mayo divides her time between Mexico City

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

, where she is the founder of and teacher at Dancing Chiva, and Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

, where she teaches at The Writers Center.

From 1999 until 2003, she edited the bilingual Spanish/English journal Tameme.

Her work has appeared in Chelsea, West Branch, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Kenyon Review, The North American Review, The Paris Review, Southwest Review, Tin House and Witness.

Awards

• 1995 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
  Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
  The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor....
  
  , for Sky Over El Nido
• Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards (Three Awards)
• Washington Independent Writers
  Washington Independent Writers
  American Independent Writers is a American trade organization for professional writers.It was formed as the Washington Independent Writers in 1975 by a group of freelance writers in the Washington DC area to address concerns over finding health insurance, job searching, and to provide social...
  
  Awards (Three Awards)

Works

• "BANK"; "NAFTA"; "THE EGG"; "IN THE NEW TERRITORIES"; "THE SEA IS CORTÉS", The Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Volume 5, Number 4, Fall 2004

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Dancing Chiva," Author's eBook publishing site
• "Interview with C.M. Mayo on Dancing Chiva", John Randolph Bennett, March 31, 2011
• "The C.M. Mayo Interview", The Quarterly Conversation, Summer 2007
• "An Interview with C.M. Mayo", Whereabouts Press
• "10 QUESTIONS FOR…C.M. Mayo, author of travel memoir & historical novel", Ask Wendy, March 1, 2009
• "SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT: C. M. MAYO", National Book Critics Circle, Apr-22-2008
• "Interview: C.M. Mayo", DCist, September 2007
• "C.M. Mayo, Editing a Literary Tour of Mexico", NPR
• "Interview With C.M. Mayo, Author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire", Savvy Verse and Wit, May 4, 2009
• "The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire by C.M. Mayo", Bookslut, May 2009
• "C.M. Mayo Interview, Part I", Eight diagrams, June 30, 2006