Kellie Wells (writer)

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, 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. She is currently teaching and directing at the MFA program at The University of Alabama.

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

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