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 is forthcoming from Ecco/HarperCollins in Summer 2025. Her chapbook, ALL HAT, NO CATTLE was published by Bull City Press in 2023. Mariah’s work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, MASS MoCA, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Oregon Literary Arts, and Lambda Literary, among others, and has been published in venues like Oxford American, Electric Literature, Chicago Review of Books, 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.