About

I live with my wife, Jennifer Smith-Mayo (a freelance photographer), and our dear dog on the rugged coast of Maine, a stunning region rich in history and natural beauty. We collaborate on various projects (the Icons series of books, for example) and we operate Gritty Press, publisher of adventurous reads.

When I’m not engaged in fisticuffs with grizzlies, defending my family from kill-crazy sea creatures, or fixing up our old house, me and the mrs. like to travel.

We’ll use any excuse to hit the trail and head out West, the Hebrides, the Yukon—to any place we can score cheap tickets. Next stop: Our castle in Ireland, then it’s on to our secret volcano hideout in Fiji, then back to our ranch in Montana….

Matthew P. Mayo is represented by Cherry Weiner of the Cherry Weiner Literary Agency.

Member: Boy Scouts of America (Eagle Scout); Western Writers of America; Western Fictioneers; and Grizzly Boxers Anonymous.

 

Credits:

Awards:

Western Writers of America’s 2013 Spur Award for Best Short Western Novel.
Finalist, Western Fictioneers 2010 Peacemaker Award for Short Fiction.
Finalist, Western Writers of America’s 2010 Spur Award for Short Fiction.

Contributor (Fiction, Poetry):
Beat to a Pulp: Round 2 (Beat to a Pulp Books anthology)
Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook (Moonstone Books anthology)
The Traditional West: A Western Fictioneers Anthology (WF)
Cactus Country Anthology, Vol. 1 (High Hill Press)
Bad Austen: The Worst Stories Jane Never Wrote (Adams Media)
Bookgasm Presents: Mondo Sasqatch anthology
Port Yonder Books’ Christmas Campfire Companion anthology
PulpWork Press’ How the West Was Weird, Vol. 2 anthology
Needle: A Magazine of Noir
DAW Books’ Steampunk’d anthology
DAW Books’ Timeshares anthology
A Fistful of Legends anthology
Where Legends Ride anthology
Beat to a Pulp
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Teens Talk High School
Goose River Anthology
Out of the Gutter Magazine
Astonishing Adventures Magazine
Harbor Journal
Out West
The Berkshire Review
Wolf Moon Journal
The Lowell Pearl
The Lyndon Review
Many Harmonies
Ratbone Rag
Green Mountain Trading Post
The Snook

Editor (Anthologies):
Beat to a Pulp: Round 2 (Beat to a Pulp Books anthology)
Where Legends Ride (Express Westerns)

Editor/Contributor (Articles, Essays, Reviews):
Roundup Magazine
Tied-In
Meridian Bridge
Big Sky Journal
Western Art & Architecture
Down East—The Magazine of Maine
Miami Living
MacDirectory
ETFR
Fly Rod & Reel
Fishing Tackle Trade News
The Face