Acclaimed fiction writer and award-winning author Nina McConigley will speak Friday, April 3, at the University of Wyoming. Her presentation, which is free and open to the public, will be at 4 p.m. in Room 506 of Coe Library. Light refreshments will be served. A book signing will follow the talk. The University Store will have copies of her books available for purchase before and after the event.

McConigley is the author of the short-story collection “Cowboys and East Indians,” which won the PEN Open Book Award and a High Plains Book Award, and was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. A stage adaptation of “Cowboys and East Indians,” commissioned by the Denver Center for Performing Arts, had its world premiere in 2026. Her latest novel, “How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder,” published in January, is a complex coming-of-age story set in 1986 rural Wyoming that blends dark humor and mystery with an exploration of family, identity and the lingering effects of colonial history.

For more information about McConigley, visit her website at https://ninamcconigley.com/.

McConigley’s presentation is sponsored by UW Libraries and the Honors College.

Those who are not able to attend in person will have the option to attend online via WyoCast at https://uwyo.video.yuja.com/LiveStream/I/826/1029773352.