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 was awarded a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and is forthcoming from Ecco/HarperCollins in Summer 2025. Her creative nonfiction chapbook, ALL HAT, NO CATTLE was published by Bull City Press in 2023.

Mariah is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, MASS MoCA, Oregon Literary Arts, Carolyn Moore Writers’ House, The Mount, and Lambda Literary. Her work has been featured in Oxford American, The Common, Joyland, The Sewanee Review, and elsewhere. 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.

A copy of her CV is available here.