Nina McConigley

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Library

Books

  • Cowboys and East Indians
  • The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers, Black Lawrence Press, October 2015
  • Little Boxes: Twelve Writers on Television, Coffee House Press, August 2017
  • PEN America Best Debut Short Stories 2017, Catapult Books, August 2017
  • Wildsam Field Guides, Yellowstone: Mystery and Marvel, May 2021

Stories

  • Ploughshares, excerpt from The Call of Migratory Things, May 2024.
  • Atticus Review, “Reserve Champion,” February 2014.
  • Salon, Holiday Fiction, December 2013.
  • Altered Scale, Summer 2013.
  • Slice Magazine, “Pomp and Circumstances,” Spring 2012.
  • Memorious, “White Wedding,” Fall 2011.
  • Asian American Literary Review, “Fenced Out,” Winter 2011.
  • The Owls, “The Things They Sold,” Winter 2011.
  • American Short Fiction, “Curating Your Life,” Fall 2009.
  • Forklift, Ohio, “Melting,” Spring 2009.
  • The Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR), “Cowboys and East Indians,” Summer 2008.
  • Puerto del Sol, “Reserve Champion,” Summer 2008.

Other Writing & Journalism

  • Mother Goose, Mama Bear, Alaska Quarterly Review, Summer/Fall 2024
  • “Prairie Dog: Township and Range,” High Country News, July 2024
  • “Isn’t it Romantic?: Township and Range”, High Country News, April 2024
  • “I Married a Cookstove Scientist: Township and Range”, High Country News, January 2024
  • “Dino Time: Township and Range”, High Country News, October 2023
  • “Horse Girls: Township and Range”, High Country News, July 2023
  • “Say Rabbit: Township and Range”, High Country News, March 2023
  • “Home Place: Township and Range”, High Country News, December 2022
  • “Jinx Bird: Township and Range”,, High Country News, July 2022
  • Usher Them Into Adulthood, Parents Magazine, February 2022
  • On Tarfia Faizullah’s “Self Portrait As Mango”, Poetry Daily, June 2021
  • The Days After, Wildsam Field Guides, Yellowstone: Mystery and Marvel, May 2021
  • Mother of Invention, Radcliffe Magazine, Fall 2020
  • Choosing to Have Biracial Children, O, The Oprah Magazine, May 2017
  • “Perumal Murugan: A Literary Suicide“, PEN America, September 2015
  • Jesse Owens, Mr. Harris, and Me, The Common, April 2015
  • Orion Magazine, Book Review of The Last Animal, October 2014
  • A Prairie Home Abandoned, The New York Times, November 2013
  • “Why I Live In Wyoming”, WyoFile, November 2013
  • “Pitch on the Pasture”, The New York Times, September 3, 2012
  • India Beckons Indian-Americans Back with Jobs. Day to Day, National Public Radio
  • Interview on “Owen Wister, Considered”,  KUHF, Houston, Texas
  • “A South Asian American Writer’s Perspective: Interview With Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,” Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in Indian Literature, Rodopi Press, 2009.
  • “Tara Books,” Illustration Magazine, Summer 2008.
  • “Torn Apart By Weather and Electricity, Ander Monson’s Other Electricities: Stories,” Book Review, Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, Issue 18.1, Fall 2005.
  • “The Last Picture Show: Powell Drive-in Thrives as Wyoming’s Lone Survivor,” Casper Star Tribune, Seattle Post Intelligencer, The Salt Lake City Tribune, Deseret News, Santa Monica Daily Press, August, September 2005.

Plays

  • “Cowboys and East Indians”  by Nina McConigley and Matthew Spangler, Staged reading, Colorado New Play Summit, Denver Center for Performing Arts, Denver, Colorado, February 2024
  • “Owen Wister, Considered” Staged reading, The Houston Suitcase Theatre, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, November 2004. Produced by Lanford Wilson.
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