Cowboys and East Indians Stories Set in Wyoming and India the stories in Cowboys and East Indians explore the immigrant experience and collisions of cultures in the American West as seen through the eyes of outsiders From Indian mot
Set in Wyoming and India, the stories in Cowboys and East Indians explore the immigrant experience and collisions of cultures in the American West as seen through the eyes of outsiders From Indian motel owners to a kleptomaniac foreign exchange student, a cross dressing sari wearing cowboy to oil rig workers, an adopted cowgirl to a medical tourist in India the characteSet in Wyoming and India, the stories in Cowboys and East Indians explore the immigrant experience and collisions of cultures in the American West as seen through the eyes of outsiders From Indian motel owners to a kleptomaniac foreign exchange student, a cross dressing sari wearing cowboy to oil rig workers, an adopted cowgirl to a medical tourist in India the characters in these stories are lonely and are looking for connection, and yet they can also be problematic and aggressive in order to survive in an isolated landscape These stories focus on the not often mentioned rural immigrant experience For these characters, identity is shaped not just by personal history but by place, the very land they live on About the Author Nina McConigley is the author of the story collection Cowboys and East Indians, which won the 2014 PEN Open Book Award and a High Plains Book Award She was born in Singapore and grew up in Wyoming She holds an MFA from the University of Houston and an MA from the University of Wyoming She was named by Glamour Magazine as one of 50 Phenomenal Women Making a Difference in 2014, and her book was named one of 2014 s Best Prize Winning books by O, Oprah Magazine She has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and held scholarships to the Sewanee Writers Conference, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for The Best New American Voices Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Orion, Salon, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, and The Asian American Literary Review among others She lives in Laramie, Wyoming and teaches at the University of Wyoming and at the MFA program at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers.
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NINA McCONIGLEY was born in Singapore and grew up in Wyoming She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, where she was an Inprint Brown Foundation Fellow She also holds an MA in English from the University of Wyoming and a BA in Literature from Saint Olaf College She is the winner of a Barthelme Memorial Fellowship in Non Fiction and served as the Non Fiction Editor of Gulf Coast a Journal of Literature and Fine Arts Her play, Owen Wister Considered was one of five plays produced in 2005 for the Edward Albee New Playwrights Festival, in which Pulitzer prize winning playwright Lanford Wilson was the producer She has been awarded a work study scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in 2005 2009, and received a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center She was granted a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Fiction at the 2010 Sewanee Writers Conference In 2011, she was a Scholar at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for The Best New American Voices 2009 Her story Curating Your Life was a notable story in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 edited by Dave Eggers Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, Memorious, Slice Magazine, Asian American Literary Review, Puerto del Sol, and Forklift, Ohio.She was the 2010 recipient of the Wyoming Arts Council s Frank Nelson Doubleday Memorial Writing Award and was a finalist for the 2011 Flannery O Connor Short Fiction Award She is at work on a novel and teaches at the University of Wyoming.