C.M. MAYO, author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, Sky Over El Nido, and Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico, will be part of the San Miguel Writers’ Conference faculty. She will be running an intensive fiction workshop as well as teaching a 90-minute session, “Techniques of Fiction.”
Mayo grew up in Northern California, and later graduated from the University of Chicago. After moving to Mexico, she started translating such works as Mexico: A Traveler’s Literary Companion and editing the bilingual journal (Spanish/English) Tameme.
In 1995, Sky Over El Nido won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. In 2009, her novel The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire was selected as one of the best books of the year by Library Journal. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and fellowships from the writers’ conferences at Wesleyan, Sewanee, and Bread Loaf.
To see an interview with C.M. Mayo click HERE.
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