Kellie Wells (writer)

Kellie Wells is an American professor of English, novelist, and short story writer.

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, Wells now teaches at the University of Alabama, where she is also a member of the advisory board for The Tusculum Review. She also teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific University.

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

• 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

• 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.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• Dylan Nelson, Kent Nelson, eds. (2004). Birds in the Hand. Northpoint Press. ISBN 978-0-86547-673-8.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
• Sarah Gordon (eds.). Flannery O'Connor: In Celebration of Genius. ISBN 978-1-892514-66-0.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)