Kellie Wells (writer) explained

Kellie Wells (born 1962) is an American professor of English, novelist, and short story writer.

Life

Kellie Wells graduated from the University of Kansas with a BS in journalism and a BA in English. She received MFAs from the University of Montana and the University of Pittsburgh, and a PhD from Western Michigan University. Previously the director of the graduate writing program at Washington University in St. Louis,^[1] Wells now teaches at the University of Alabama,^[2] where she is also a member of the advisory board for The Tusculum Review.^[3] She also teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific University.^[4] She is currently teaching and directing at the MFA program at The University of Alabama.^[5]

Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Ninth Letter, and Fairy Tale Review among others.^[6]

Awards

• 2001 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
• 2002 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
• 2002 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
• 2014 Baltic Writing Residency
• 2016 Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction

Works

• Book: God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna. Notre Dame University Press. 2017.
• Book: Fat Girl, Terrestrial. FC2. October 2012. 978-1573661706 .
• Book: Skin. University of Nebraska Press. March 2006. 978-0-8032-4824-3 .
• Book: Compression Scars. September 2002 . University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-2431-9 .

Anthologies

• Book: My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me. Kate Bernheimer. Penguin Books. 2010. 978-0-1431178-4-1 .
• Book: Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy 3. Kevin Brockmeier. Underland Press. 2010. 978-0-9802260-8-9. registration.
• Book: Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover. Michael Martone. Indiana University Press. 2009. 978-0-253-21022-7.
• Book: You Have Time For This. Mark Budman . Tom Hazuka. Ooligan Press. 2007. 978-1-932010-17-6 .
• Book: Birds in the Hand. Dylan Nelson . Kent Nelson. Northpoint Press. 2004. 978-0-86547-673-8.
• Book: Flannery O'Connor: In Celebration of Genius. 2000. Hill Street Press . Sarah Gordon. 978-1-892514-66-0.

External links

• • "An Interview with Kellie Wells," Tusculum Review
• "Short Story Month--Secession, XX, by Kellie Wells," Emerging Writers' Network
• "Interview with Kellie Wells, Author of Fat Girl, Terrestrial"

Notes and References

1. Web site: Faculty.
2. Web site: Staff & Faculty: Overview . 2010-06-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100609194110/http://english.ua.edu/04_faculty_staff/index.html . 2010-06-09 . dead .
3. Web site: The Tusculum Review » Editorial Staff . 2010-06-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100601071708/http://www2.tusculum.edu/tusculumreview/editorial-staff/ . 2010-06-01 . dead .
4. Web site: Faculty Biographies | Master of Fine Arts in Writing. 27 September 2017.
5. Web site: Kellie Wells Alabama English . english.ua.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120430092007/http://english.ua.edu/user/128 . 2012-04-30.
6. Web site: Faculty writers Kellie Wells and Kerri Webster to launch Writing Program Reading Series Sept. 7 | the Source | Washington University in St. Louis. 14 September 2006.