Matthew P. Mayo

Matthew P. Mayo is an American author of novels and non-fiction books, poetry, short stories, articles, and reviews. He writes about the American West, New England, and in the Western, humor, crime, and horror genres.

Life
Mayo earned his B.A. in English at Lyndon State College, in Lyndonville, Vermont, and his M.F.A. in creative writing at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont. He is married to photographer Jennifer Smith-Mayo.

Awards
Mayo has won many awards, finalist honors, and nominations for his writing, including the Western Heritage Award, the Peacemaker, Western Writers of America Spur Award, High Plains Book Award, the Willa Award, and the Will Rogers Medallion, among others.


 * 2022 Finalist, Western Writers of America Spur Award, Best Mass Market Paperback Novel, for The Too-Late Trail
 * 2021 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Fiction for Dilly
 * 2021 Will Rogers Silver Medallion Award for Young Adult Western Fiction for Dilly
 * 2021 High Plains Books Award, finalist, for Young Adult Book for Dilly
 * 2020 Will Rogers Bronze Medallion Award for Western Short Story "Peaches"
 * 2018 Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival
 * 2018 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Fiction for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival
 * 2018 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best Young Adult Western Novel for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival
 * 2018 Willa Award for Best Historical Fiction by Women Writing the West for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival
 * 2018 High Plains Books Award for Young Adult Book for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival
 * 2018 Will Rogers Gold Medallion Award for Young Adult Western Fiction Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival
 * 2018 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Finalist for Best Western Novel for Timberline (A Roamer Western)
 * 2018 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards, Silver, for Young Adult Historical Fiction for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival
 * 2017 LitPick 5-Star Award for Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival
 * 2013 Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Best Western Short Novel for Tucker’s Reckoning
 * 2010 Finalist, Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Short Fiction for “Scourge of the Spoils”
 * 2010 Finalist, Western Writers of America's Spur Award for Short Fiction for “Half a Pig”