Samuel Ligon

Samuel Ligon’s most recent novel—Miller Cane: A True & Exact History—was serialized for a year in Spokane’s weekly newspaper, the Inlander, as well as on Spokane Public Radio, before being published in book form by Slant Books in 2026. Ligon is the author of four previous books of fiction, including Safe in Heaven Dead and Wonderland, and was co-editor, with Kate Lebo, of Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter & Booze. His stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Sun, The Georgia Review, New England Review, Gettysburg Review, and elsewhere. He teaches at Eastern Washington University in Spokane.