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Mariah Rigg

Mariah Rigg is a Samoan-Haole who was born and raised on the island of O‘ahu. She is the author of the short story collection EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, which is forthcoming from Ecco/HarperCollins in summer 2025. Her work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, MASS MoCA, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Mount, Oregon Literary Arts, Carolyn Moore Writers’ House, and Lambda Literary, along with being featured in The Sewanee Review, Oxford American, Electric Lit, The Common, Joyland, and elsewhere.
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    Mariah Rigg

    The First Book: Mariah Rigg

    “Rejection can sometimes open doors to new ways of telling stories, comparison will only stagnate your writing. It will turn you away from the work that you need to create, the work that is entirely yours, and have you trying…

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    Traversing the Bridge to Dystopia: A Conversation with Nini Berndt

    Something changed substantially during COVID. Housing skyrocketed. Our unhoused population skyrocketed. The opiate crisis was in full display. My wife and our son and I were living in an un-air-conditioned apartment in Cap Hill and marching in the George Floyd…

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