Cornell, P A
Entry updated 24 August 2026. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) Chile-born journalist and author, in Canada from her early years, active from before 2015; she began to publish work of genre interest with "One Last Payday" in Scoundrels: A TPQ Anthology (anth 2017) edited by Ashley Cyr. In her first novel, Lost Cargo (2022), a careful expedition to another planet is interfered with through the protagonists' crashing on a "Moon" ruined by failed Terraforming. Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl (2026 chap) is an Alternate World romance set in a different version of Toronto. The Astronaut Among the Flowers and Other Stories (coll 2026) assembles shorter work. [JC]
P A Cornell
born Chile
works
- Lost Cargo (Rock Hill, South Carolina: Mocha Memoirs Press, 2022) [pb/Maya Preisler]
- Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl (Pasadena, California: Stars and Sabers Publishing, 2026) [chap: illus/Ahmed Raafat: pb/Kim Herbst]
collections and stories
- The Astronaut Among the Flowers and Other Stories (Pasadena, California: Stars and Sabers Publishing, 2026) [coll: hb/Loreto Salinas Retamal]
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