Kellie Wells (writer)
Kellie Wells 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]
Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner, Ninth Letter, and Fairy Tale Review among others.[5]
Awards
- 2001 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
- 2002 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
- 2002 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writer's Award
- 2014 Baltic Writing Residency
- 2016 Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction
Works
- Fat Girl, Terrestrial. FC2. October 2012. ISBN 978-1573661706.
- Skin. University of Nebraska Press. March 2006. ISBN 978-0-8032-4824-3.
- Compression Scars. University of Georgia Press. September 2002. ISBN 978-0-8203-2431-9.
Anthologies
- Kate Bernheimer, ed. (2010). My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-1431178-4-1.
- Kevin Brockmeier, ed. (2010). Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy 3. Underland Press. ISBN 978-0-9802260-8-9.
- Michael Martone, ed. (2009). Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-21022-7.
- Mark Budman, Tom Hazuka, eds. (2007). You Have Time For This. Ooligan Press. ISBN 978-1-932010-17-6.
- Dylan Nelson, Kent Nelson, eds. (2004). Birds in the Hand. Northpoint Press. ISBN 978-0-86547-673-8.
- Sarah Gordon (eds.). Flannery O'Connor: In Celebration of Genius. ISBN 978-1-892514-66-0.
References
- ↑ http://artsci.wustl.edu/faculty/wells-kellie
- ↑ http://english.ua.edu/04_faculty_staff/index.html
- ↑ http://www2.tusculum.edu/tusculumreview/editorial-staff/
- ↑ https://www.pacificu.edu/future-graduate-professional/colleges/college-arts-science/areas-study/master-fine-arts-writing-mfa/faculty-biographies
- ↑ http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/7568.html
External links
- Official website
- "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"
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