C.M. MAYO, founding editor of Olmos Park Press, is an independent writer, scholar, and literary translator whose many works include Meteor (Gival Press Award for Poetry); Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero’s Secret Book, Spiritist Manual (Indie Excellence Award for History), and the novel based on the true story of Agustín de Iturbide y Green in the Court of Maximilian, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (named a Library Journal Best Book).
Mayo is also a noted literary translator of Mexican fiction and poetry, and is the editor of a collection of Mexican fiction and essays, Mexico: A Traveler’s Literary Companion. Founding editor of Tameme, a bilingual literary journal and chapbook press (1999-2007), Mayo has translated and also edited others’ translations of works of numerous outstanding contemporary Mexican writers.
Mayo’s other recognitions include the Flannery O’Connor for Short Fiction, fellowships to Bread Loaf and Yaddo, an artist residency at the Guadalupe Mountains National Park, and three Lowell Thomas Awards for travel writing. In 2015 she delivered the Centennial Lecture for the University of El Paso, and in 2017 she was elected a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.
Her blog is C.M. Mayos’s Book Notes & Convos.
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Works by C.M. Mayo available from Olmos Park Press:
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C.M. Mayo is the series editor of Vintage Lenses on the World That Was. The first title will be published in January 2026.
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