Member News: C.M. Mayo wins the Gival Press Poetry Award

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CoScreen Shot 2017-08-30 at 3.04.41 PMngratulations to WWW member C.M. Mayo for winning the Gival Press Poetry Award forher manuscript titled METEOR. The Gival Press Poetry Award is open to poets both nationally and internationally, and results in Gival Press publishing the work itself. Watch for METEOR in 2018!
C.M. Mayo’s recent previous publications include her essay “Tulpa Max or, Notes on the Afterlife of a Resurrection” which appeared recently in the 2017 summer issue of Catamaran Literary Reader along with her translation of Rose Mary Salum’s “The Cafe.” Mayo’s other translation of Agustín Cadena’s “The Apaches of Kiev” was printed in Tupelo Quarterly.
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Mayo’s long essay on the Mexican literary landscape: Dispatch from the Sister Republic, was published in July 2017 by Dancing Chiva and can be found on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B073QBZK9X/cmmay
About C.M. Mayo
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C.M. lives and writes in and about Mexico! She has written several books, both fiction and nonfiction, and is an avid translator of Mexican poetry and fiction. She was elected to the Texas Institute of Letters in 2017 and is an accomplished host of podcasts and blogs. Learn more at www.cmmayo.com

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