Shanteka Sigers is an award-winning fiction writer.
She’s an O. Henry Prize winner and her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories. Her story “Come to a Good End,” received a Special Mention in the 2026 Pushcart Prize anthology. Other work appears in The Paris Review, Freeman’s, NPR’s Selected Shorts and The Chicago Reader All Fiction Issue. She is also the winner of Literary Death Match 17.
With an undergraduate degree in Radio Television and Film from Northwestern University, an MFA from New York University in Paris and a long career as an Executive Creative Director, she loves a great story in all forms.
Literary representation: Claudia Ballard, WME
“Mostly, I write about mules gone wild.”
“How to Fight”
Listen to your Mother: Giving Motherhood a Microphone selected the essay “How to Fight” to be performed live by the author in Austin. It was later selected as a script for the national theatrical version of the show, available for license.