Mariah Rigg

Mariah Rigg is a Samoan-Haole who was born and raised on the island of O‘ahu. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Common, Oxford American, Joyland, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere, along with receiving support from organizations like the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Lambda Literary, MASS MoCA, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where she teaches writing. Mariah’s prose chapbook, All Hat, No Cattle was published by Bull City Press in 2023. Her short story collection, Extinction Capital of the World, is forthcoming from Ecco in 2025.