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] 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]

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.

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. ISBN 978-1-892514-66-0.