Meet The Authors

Nina McConigley

Nina Swamidoss McConigley was born in Singapore and grew up in Wyoming. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where she was an Inprint Brown Foundation Fellow. She also holds an MA in English from the University of Wyoming and a BA in Literature from Saint Olaf College. She is the winner of a Barthelme Memorial Fellowship in Non-Fiction and served as the Non-Fiction Editor of Gulf Coast: a Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. Her play, "Owen Wister Considered" was one of five plays produced in 2005 for the Edward Albee New Playwrights Festival, in which Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Lanford Wilson was the producer. She has been awarded scholarships to both the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and received a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center in 2008.

She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for "The Best New American Voices 2009". Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, Asian American Literary Review, Puerto del Sol, and Forklift, Ohio. She is the 2010 recipient of the Wyoming Arts Council’s Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award. She currently teaches at the University of Wyoming and has just completed a story collection, Cowboys and East Indians.