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

• God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna. Notre Dame University Press. 2017.
• 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, ed. (2000). Flannery O'Connor: In Celebration of Genius. Hill Street Press. ISBN  978-1-892514-66-0.

References

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"