Jennifer C. Cornell teaches at Oregon State University and her fiction has appeared in publications such as TriQuarterly and New England Review.

Cornell writes with a burnished melancholy and a soft wit, rolling out an undulating series of elegant images. . . . She writes model short stories: lucid, inventive and teeming with overlapped memories, like creamier versions of William Trevor's wry fables of unfulfillment.

Jennifer C. Cornell teaches at Oregon State University and her fiction has appeared in publications such as TriQuarterly and New England Review.

Cornell writes with a burnished melancholy and a soft wit, rolling out an undulating series of elegant images. . . . She writes model short stories: lucid, inventive and teeming with overlapped memories, like creamier versions of William Trevor's wry fables of unfulfillment.