C.M. Mayo is a novelist, travel writer, poet, and translator. Her most recent books are THE LAST PRINCE OF THE MEXICAN EMPIRE, novel based on the true story and named a Library Journal Best Book 2009; MIRACULOUS AIR, a travel memoir of Mexico's nearly 1,000 mile-long Baja California peninsula; and SKY OVER EL NIDO, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. She is also the editor of MEXICO: A TRAVELER'S LITERARY COMPANION, a portrait of Mexico in the fiction and literary prose of 24 Mexican writers; and, most recently, the translator of Francisco I. Madero's secret book, SPIRITIST MANUAL.