Lee Conell is the author of a novel, The Party Upstairs (Penguin Press, 2020), which received the Wallant Award, and a story collection, Subcortical (Johns Hopkins, 2017), which received the Story Prize Spotlight Award. She is currently a Mandel Institute of Cultural Leadership fellow, and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in prose and a U.S.-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship. Conell’s work has been supported by Yaddo, Millay Arts, Willapa Bay AiR, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
Extinction
Summer 2024
Bedtime Stories from the Permian
When I was a little girl, my older sister refused to tell me fairy tales. My bedtime stories were instead about the sea. Ellie talked of turtles with minds that […]
Fall 2016: The Poetics of Science
Unit Cell
On a Saturday afternoon in the lab, Sheila looks through her microscope and does not see the contents of her crystal trays, does not see drops of precipitant or protein […]