Ramona Ausubel discusses and signs THE LAST ANIMAL with Nina McConigley

Ramona Ausubel is the author of two novels and two story collections, among them Awayland and Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty. Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, she has been long-listed for the Story Prize. Her work has appeared in the The New Yorker, The New York Times, NPR's Selected Shorts, and elsewhere.

Nina McConigley was born in Singapore and raised in Wyoming. Her short-story collection Cowboys and East Indians was the winner of the PEN Open Book Award and a High Plains Book Award. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Orion, High Country News, O, Oprah Magazine, Parents, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Short Fiction, and The Asian American Literary Review among others. In 2019-2020, she was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a 2022 recipient of the national Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowship. She teaches at Colorado State University.