photo by Francesca Swinand, 2024

Conor Robin Madigan was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in Evanston, Illinois, where he lives and works. He received an MFA in 2008 from The School of the Art Institute and attended Earlham College, where he earned a bachelors in English.

He is the author of Cut Up (TRoL Books, 2011), and several short stories. He won the 2023 Rick Demarinis Contest and was finalist for The Great American Fiction Contest 2020. He is at work on a novel cycle and is represented by Jake Lovell of The Sandra Dijkstra Agency.


He most enjoys being silly.


Currently reading:

Banal Nightmare, Halle Butler

The Rabbit Hutch, Tess Gunty

The Least of Us, Sam Quinones

The Matter With Things, Iain McGilchrist

Apostle, Tom Bissell

The Consequences, Manuel Muñoz

Sincerity and Authenticity, Trilling

A World Without Time, Yourgrau

Genesis, Robert Alter

Spring Snow, Mishima

Halldor Laxness

Oakley Hall