EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD: 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 (Ecco, 2025). Her chapbook, All Hat, No Cattle, was published by Bull City Press in 2023. Mariah has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, MASS MoCA, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, The Mount, Carolyn Moore Writers' House, and Lambda Literary. Her work is featured in The Sewanee Review, Oxford American, Electric Lit, The Common, Joyland, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and a PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Margaret Malone is the host of the literary radio show Bust the Canon on xray.fm, and author of the story collection People Like You, a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction & Winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize, and selected as one of the Northwest’s “25 Books to Read Before You Die” by Powell’s Books.