Reads Well’s founder and senior editor Jennifer Cornell has over 20 years’ experience teaching creative writing, public speaking, literature, film studies, and critical analysis at the undergraduate and postgraduate level and through adult and continuing education programmes in both the US and the UK. She has taught a range of subjects to American prep school students, including animal behaviour, international relations, composition and rhetoric. She has over ten years’ experience in the community sector in North Belfast, and has secured more than £45,000 in grants as an individual artist and on behalf of the community groups with which she’s worked.
Her essays and short stories have appeared in various academic and literary journals and other publications, including Cara, Aer Lingus’ in-flight magazine, and have been much anthologised, most recently in The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story (2010).
She is a graduate of Harvard University, and a Registered Support Provider with both Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Ulster.
Reads Well founder Jennifer Cornell has worked as a pet sitter, a sandwich maker, a field biologist, a community support coordinator, a scientific illustrator, a public speaking coach and a professor of English.
In addition to fiction, she has published original research in a wide range of fields, including the defensive behaviour of Buckmoth caterpillars (Hemileuca lucina), representations of political violence in film and literature, the Black Death, restorative justice, and the literary motif of star-crossed love. She’s been teaching somebody something for over 25 years. 
