Mariah Rigg is a Samoan-Haole settler who was born and raised on the island of O‘ahu. Her work has been published in Oxford American, The Cincinnati Review, Joyland, Catapult, and elsewhere, and has received support from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Carolyn Moore Writers’ House, Oregon Literary Arts, The Mount, Lambda Literary, and MASS MoCA. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Mariah’s prose chapbook, ALL HAT, NO CATTLE was published as part of the Inch series at Bull City Press in 2023. She is a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow in Creative Writing. Her debut short story collection, EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD is forthcoming from Ecco in 2025.