Catherine Mansell, known professionally as C. M. Mayo, is an American literary journalist,

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writer,

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and noted

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of contemporary Mexican fiction and poetry. For various literary magazines and anthologies, she has translated works by Mexican writers and poets including Araceli Ardón, Agustín Cadena, Antonio Deltoro, Alvaro Énrigue, Eduardo Hurtado,

Mónica Lavín Mónica Lavín (born August 22, 1955) is a Mexican author of eleven novels, various books of nonfiction, and thirteen short story collections, notable among them ''Ruby Tuesday no ha muerto'' (1996 recipient of the Gilberto Owen National Literary ...

, Guadalupe Loaeza,

Tedi López Mills Tedi López Mills is a Mexican poet born in 1959 in Mexico City. She began her undergraduate studies in philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico for three years before completing her degree at the Sorbonne University in Paris. ...

, Rose Mary Salum,

Ignacio Solares Ignacio Solares Bernal (15 January 1945 – 24 August 2023) was a Mexican novelist, editor and playwright, whose novel ''La invasión'' (''The Invasion'', 2004) was a bestseller in Mexico and Spain. Until 2005 he served as the Coordinator of Cu ...

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, Verónica Volkow, among others. A

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native, she was raised in

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and educated as an

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at the

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. She is a long-time resident of

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Awards

* 1995

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, for ''Sky Over El Nido'' * Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards (Three Awards) *

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Awards (Three Awards)

Works

* ''Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual'' (Dancing Chiva, 2014) * * *
"BANK"; "NAFTA"; "THE EGG"; "IN THE NEW TERRITORIES"; "THE SEA IS CORTÉS", ''The Beltway Poetry Quarterly'', Volume 5, Number 4, Fall 2004

Translations

External links

"Author's website""C.M. Mayo's Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project""National Public Radio John Ydsie Interviews C.M. Mayo about "Editing a Literary Tour of Mexico""Poet and the Poem Podcast, Library of Congress, Grace Cavalieri Interviews C.M. Mayo""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''
* ttp://www.bookslut.com/fiction/2009_05_014442.php "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
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