Award-winning author
Lee Conell is the author of the novel “The Party Upstairs” (Penguin Press), which was awarded the Wallant Award, was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Post, and appeared on Most Anticipated lists from Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, LitHub, and The Millions. She is also the author of the story collection “Subcortical” (Johns Hopkins University Press), which was awarded The Story Prize Spotlight Award and an Independent Publisher Book Award. She has received a Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose from the National Endowment for the Arts and did creative research in Japan on a Japan-US Creative Artist Fellowship. Her stories have won the Nelson Algren Award from the Chicago Tribune, and have been shortlisted in Best American Short Stories and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She has also received writing fellowships and residencies from Yaddo, Willapa Bay AiR, the Tennessee Arts Commission, Millay Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Vanderbilt University, and the Yiddish Book Center. Her writing appears in the Oxford American, ZYZZYVA, Paris Review Daily, Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, The New York Times, and elsewhere.
Conell graduated from SUNY New Paltz's Honors Program in 2009 and went on to earn her Master of Arts in the English department in 2011. In 2019 she was named a 40 Under Forty recipient at SUNY New Paltz. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from Vanderbilt University and has taught fiction writing at Tufts University, Vanderbilt University, and Sewanee: University of the South."
