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Indian-origin author Nina McConigley to present debut novel in Houston
Debut novel explores immigrant life and sisterhood in rural Wyoming.
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Malvika Choudhary - Tue, 21, Apr 2026
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Nina McConigley/ Book's cover / Handout
Irish-Indian author Nina McConigley will present her debut novel ‘How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder’ on May 4 at the Alley Theatre in Houston.
The novel, set in 1986 rural Wyoming, follows two Indian American teenage sisters who plot to kill a newly arrived uncle. The work blends elements of mystery with themes of sisterhood, identity, and the immigrant experience in the American West.
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Born in Singapore to an Irish father and an Indian mother, Nimi McConigley, a former Wyoming state legislator, Nina was raised in Casper, Wyoming.
Her writing has focused on immigrant life in rural America, reflected in her short story collection Cowboys and East Indians, which won the PEN/Open Book Award and the High Plains Book Award.
Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Ploughshares, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. In 2022, she launched the quarterly column Township and Range in High Country News, which was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in 2024.
She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. A stage adaptation of Cowboys and East Indians, commissioned by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, is set for a 2026 world premiere.
A graduate of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, where she was an Inprint fellow and prize recipient, McConigley returns to Houston for the series finale. She currently teaches at Colorado State University and is affiliated with the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
A graduate of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, where she was an Inprint fellow and prize recipient, McConigley returns to Houston as part of the season finale of the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.
The event, scheduled for 7:30 p.m., will feature a joint reading with poet brittny ray crowell, followed by an on-stage conversation led by Kevin Prufer and a book signing.
The event will also mark the final reading hosted by Inprint’s outgoing executive director Rich Levy, who is retiring after 31 years.
The reading series, presented in association with the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, has featured more than 400 writers from 40 countries since 1980.
Tickets are priced at $5, with free admission available for students and senior citizens upon request.
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