Nina McConigley
Nina McConigley was born in Singapore and raised in Wyoming. Nina McConigley’s fiercely original debut novel, How to Commit a Post-Colonial Murder, is the book everyone will be talking about. A Most Anticipated Book of the Year from The New York Times, Vulture, Parade, BookBrowse, Literary Hub, Kirkus, Alta, ShelfAwareness, The Culture Newspaper Book and Film Globe, Information Today, DNYUZ, and The Stylist.
Nina McConigley is the author of the short-story collection Cowboys and East Indians, which won the PEN Open Book Award and a High Plains Book Award.
She has received grants and fellowships from the NEA, the Radcliffe Institute, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She was also a recipient of the Wyoming Arts Council’s Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award and was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for her columns in High Country News.
Her play, based on Cowboys and East Indians, premiered at the Denver Center for Performing Arts in 2026. Her essay collection on the American West will be published by the University of Georgia in 2027. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Orion, O, Oprah Magazine, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, The Asian American Literary Review, and Salon, among other outlets. She teaches at Colorado State University.