Catherine Mayo
Catherine Mayo is a musician and violin maker as well as an author from New Zealand. She was born in Auckland, New Zealand. Her university training is in history, and in Ancient Greek – passions she discovered when she was a child reading Barbara Leonie Picard’s retelling of Homer’s The Odyssey. Mayo attended Auckland University and studied history, philosophy, French, music, art history and geology. She is part of a bluegrass band called Gentle Annie which has toured as far as Alaska, and is a professional luthier (building and restoring violins). Mayo’s first book was Murder at Mykenai published in 2013; her second was The Bow: Win or lose? published in 2014. She also contributed to The Book that Made Me (edited by Judith Ridge), published in 2016, all three books were published by Walker Books Australia. Her first novel won a Storylines Notable Book Award for Young Adult fiction in 2014, and her subsequent novels are set in Ancient Greece.
Sources:
Official website (accessed: September 30, 2017).
bookcouncil.org.nz (accessed: September 30, 2017).
walkerbooks.com.au (accessed: September 30, 2017).
canelo.co (accessed: February 9, 2021).
Bio prepared by Pauline Reynolds, University of New England, preynol3@myune.edu.au and Andy McCormack, University of Cambridge,apm73@cam.ac.uk
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