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Catherine Mansell
    Carstens is the author of Las
    Nuevas Finanzas en México (Editorial Milenio/
    IMEF / ITAM, 1992) and Las
    Finanzas Populares en México
    (Editorial Milenio / CEMLA / ITAM, 1995). The former,
    which was a best-seller in Mexico, has been adopted in several
    Mexican universities as a textbook on international finance.
    The latter, which is the result of path-breaking research into
    how low-income Mexicans use credit, savings, and payments services,
    has been widely influential in Mexican microenterprise policy
    circles.



    In addition to numerous articles on Mexican finance in El
    Trimestre Económico, Hemisfile, Business Mexico, Este
    País, and El Economista, among many others,
    Mansell-Carstens is also editor of Liberalización e
    Innovación Financiera en los Paises Desarrollados y en
    Latino América, a collection of papers on financial
    liberalization and innovation published by the Centro de Estudios
    Monetarios Latinoamericanos.



    Mansell Carstens received her BA (`82) and MA (`85) in economics
    from the University of Chicago. In 1986 she married Agustín
    Carstens and moved to Mexico City. She was chief economist for
    the Futures and Options division of Euro American Capital Corp,
    an offshore subsidiary of Banamex, the first Mexican bank to
    offer and trade derivatives and later, a full-time professor
    of economics at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo
    de México (ITAM) in Mexico City, specializing in International
    Finance and Development Finance. 



    In
    1995 she embarked on a second career as a literary writer and
    translator with the pen name C.M.
    Mayo (Mayo being a family name). 



    C.M. MAYO



    As C.M. Mayo she
    is the author of several works of literary fiction and nonfiction,
    among them: Metaphysical
    Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and
    His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual; an historical novel, The
    Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, which
    was named one of the Best Books of 2009 by Library Journal.
    She is also author of 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. 



    Founding editor of Tameme, the bilingual Spanish/English)
    chapbook press, Mayo is also a noted translator
    of contemporary Mexican poetry and fiction. Among the many Mexican poets and writers
    she has translated are Araceli Ardón, Agustín Cadena,
    Mónica Lavín, Rose Mary Salum, Ignacio Solares,
    and Juan Villoro.



    Her anthology of 24 Mexican writers in translation, Mexico:
    A Traveler's Literary Companion, was
    published by Whereabouts Press in March 2006. 



    Mayo's stories, essays and poems have appeared in numerous U.S.
    literary magazines including Catamaran Literary Reader, Creative
    Nonfiction,, Kenyon Review, Literal, North American Review, The Paris Review,
    and Southwest Review.



    Other awards include three Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards
    and two Washington Independent Writers Awards. She has also been
    awarded residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, Ragdale Foundation,
    the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and (for Sky Over
    El Nido) fellowships from the writers conferences at Wesleyan,
    Sewanee, and Bread Loaf.



    In 2015 C.M. Mayo delivered the University
    of Texas El Paso Centennial lecture. In 2017 she received three important
    awards: She was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters;
    named an artist-in-residence (for May) at the Guadalupe Mountains
    National Park in Texas; and won the Gival Press Poetry Award
    for her collection, Meteor, for publication in 2018. 



    She is currently at work on a collection of literary essays,
    World Waiting for a Dream: A Turn in Far West Texas. 

    
She is married
    to economist Agustin
    Carstens;
    they live in Mexico City.



    Follow C.M. Mayo's updates @cmmayo1 on Twitter and her blog,
    Madam
    Mayo.
    Visit her webage at www.cmmayo.com



    Member, Authors
    Guild;
    American
    Literary Translators Association; National Book Critics Circle; Texas
    Institute of Letters;
    Women
    Writing the West.