Nina McConigley

Nina McConigley was born in Singapore and raised in Wyoming. She is the author of the novel How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder (Pantheon) and the short-story collection Cowboys and East Indians (Viking) which was the winner of the PEN Open Book Award and a High Plains Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Orion, Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly Review, High Country News, O, Oprah Magazine,Parents, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, andThe Asian American Literary Review among others. In 2019-2020, was the Walter Jackson Bate fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and was a 2022 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowship. Her play based on Cowboys and East Indians was commissioned by the Denver Center for Performing Arts and had its world premiere in 2026. She has an essay collection forthcoming with the University of Georgia Press. She teaches at Colorado State University.