Conor Robin Madigan is the author of CUT UP (The Republic of Letters Books, 2011), and several short stories. Most recently, "Finch's Cow" won the Rick Demarinis Contest, as judged by Manuel Muñoz. "Life Begins" is included in The Saturday Evening Post's 2020 Great Fiction Anthology. Several of his short stories are in Storyglossia, Contrary Magazine, Smokelong Quarterly, The New York Tyrant, and others.  Fortnightly Review and PiF Magazine have published his essays on writing, authorship, and I. B. Singer. 

He grew up in Evanston, Illinois, where he now works and lives. He attended Earlham College, studying race, religion, and Post-Colonial Literature there. He attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Writing Program, where he earned an MFAW.