Mayo (pronounced My-yo) is a writer and poet based in London who writes fiction in prose and verse for children and young adults. He is passionate about creating the stories he felt were missing from his own childhood, thrilling fantastical adventures and inspirational uplifting stories centred around young Black characters.

His writing has won multiple awards including the 2023 Mo Siewcharran Prize and a 2022 London Writers Award in the Children’s and YA category. He was selected as one of the 2024 Writers on the Rise by Pan Macmillan and the Black British Book Festival, has been Highly Commended by Faber’s FAB Prize and was longlisted for the inaugural Jericho Prize. He is a graduate of the HarperCollins Author Academy and has had work published in The Bookseller, The New Statesman and on BBC Sounds.

He is passionate about broadening opportunities for marginalised writers and has appeared on panels at London Book Fair and the House of Lords to speak on the topic of breaking down barriers for working-class writers and writers of colour.

Mayo is represented by Ludo Cinelli at the Eve White Literary Agency

Mayo was part of the 2021-22 cohort of A Writing Chance.