C.M. Mayo is the author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, a historical novel based on the true story, published by Unbridled Books in May. A writer and translator, Mayo has lived in Mexico for many years, and her other books include the widely-lauded travel memoir, 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 contemporary Mexican literature, Mayo is founding editor of Tameme Chapbooks ~ Cuadernos, and has also edited the anthology Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, a portrait of Mexico in the fiction and literary prose of 24 Mexican writers. She conducted extensive original research to write her new novel, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. Mayo has received three Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards and three Washington Independent Writers Awards. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Radgale Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and fellowships from writers conferences at Bread Loaf, Sewanee and Wesleyan. A Texas native raised in Northern California and a long-time resident of Mexico City, Mayo was educated as an economist at the University of Chicago. She previously worked at a Mexico City investment bank and ITAM, a private university, where she taught international and development finance in both the undergraduate and the MBA programs. Mayo currently divides her time between Mexico City, where she offers workshops via Dancing Chiva, and Washington DC, where she is on the faculty of The Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland. For more information, visit www.cmmayo.com