Join us for this reading and discussion of McConigley's How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder. Author will be signing books after the event. Sponsored by Ithaca College Department of Literatures in English.

Nina McConigley is the author of How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder and the story collection Cowboys and East Indians, which was the winner of the PEN Open Book Award and the High Plains Book Award. She has received grants and fellowships from the NEA, the Radcliffe Institute, Bread Loaf, Vermont Studio Center, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She was a recipient of the Wyoming Arts Council’s Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award and a finalist for a National Magazine Award for her columns in High Country News. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, Orion, O: The Oprah Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and American Short Fiction among other outlets. Born in Singapore and raised in Wyoming, she now lives in Colorado.

Eleanor Henderson is the author of the memoir Everything I Have Is Yours: A Marriage, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of 2021 by Vogue; and the novels The Twelve-Mile Straight, and Ten Thousand Saints, which was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and a finalist for the Award for First Fiction from The Los Angeles Times. It was also the basis for the movie adaptation 10,000 Saints starring Ethan Hawke. A Professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College and a 2024 NYFA Fellow in Fiction, she will publish her next novel, The Galaxy, in August 2027.