Lee Conell is the author of a novel, The Party Upstairs (Penguin Press), which received the Wallant Award, and a story collection, Subcortical (Johns Hopkins University Press), which received the Story Prize’s Spotlight Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Millay Arts, the U.S.-Japan Creative Artist Program, and the Tennessee Arts Commission. Her stories and essays have appeared in ZYZZYVA, Kenyon Review, Oxford American, Glimmer Train, Guernica, American Short Fiction online, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Paris Review Daily, and her work has won the Chicago Tribune‘s Nelson Algren Award and been shortlisted in Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize anthology.
