Nina McConigley was born in Singapore and grew up in Wyoming. She holds an M.A. from the University of Wyoming and an M.F.A. from the University of Houston. She has received scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center. She has taught English and creative writing at the University of Houston, the University of Wyoming, and even briefly at Stella Maris College in Chennai, India. McConigley has worked with young writers in Houston as a Writer-in-Residence at various elementary and middle schools through the city’s Writers in the Schools program. She has been nominated for The Best New American Voices and, for the past three years, a Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, Slice, Asian American Literary Review, Puerto del Sol, and others. Her short-story collection, Cowboys and East Indians, is forthcoming in August 2013. To learn more about McConigley and her work, visit www.ninamcconigley.com.