Fiction Reading by Mariah Rigg

Thu Feb 12 2026 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm UTC-05:00

Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library | Cincinnati

University of Cincinnati English Department
Publisher/HostUniversity of Cincinnati English Department
Fiction Reading by Mariah Rigg
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Join us for a fiction reading by Mariah Rigg whose debut short story collection has received praise from Oprah Daily, Vulture, and others.
About this Event

This event is free and open to the public. The Elliston Poetry Room is located in Suite 646 on the 6th Floor of Langsam Library on the UC Uptown Campus at 2911 Woodside Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45221. Public parking is available in the Woodside Garage beneath Langsam Library, or along Martin Luther King Drive on the north edge of the Uptown Campus. An elevator in Woodside Garage will take you to Floor 4 (ground level) and once inside Langsam Library another elevator can take you to floor 6.

Mariah Rigg is the author of the debut short story collection Extinction Capital of the World (Ecco, 2025), which has received praise from Oprah Daily, Vulture, Chicago Review of Books, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, and more. Her work has been featured in The Sewanee Review, Oxford American, Electric Lit, and Chicago Review of Books, among others, and has received support from organizations like the National Endowment for the Arts, MASS MoCA, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Lambda Literary. Mariah holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and a PhD from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Currently, she teaches creative writing as a visiting fellow at Mount Holyoke College.

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Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library, 2911 Woodside Drive, Cincinnati, United States

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