P.A. Cornell is an award-winning, Chilean-Canadian, speculative fiction author. In 2024, she became the first ever Chilean writer to be nominated for the Nebula Award for her story, "Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont," also a finalist for the Aurora and World Fantasy Awards. Additionally, Cornell has been long-listed for the 2023 and 2024 BSFA Awards, and in 2022, her story, "Splits," won Canada's 2022 Short Works Prize for Published Fiction. Despite her early interest in fiction, Cornell's first publications were in non-fiction as a journalist and copy editor. Since 2015, she's dedicated herself to writing science fiction, fantasy, and horror full time, and her stories have appeared in over fifty magazines and anthologies, including three "Best of" anthologies.