Discipline: Literature – fiction

Kellie Wells

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Tuscaloosa, AL
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003
More: www.kelliewells.com
Kellie Wells is an American professor of English, novelist, and short story writer. Wells graduated from the University of Kansas with a B.S. in journalism and a B.A. in English. She received M.F.A.s from the University of Montana and the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D. 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 M.F.A. program at Pacific University. She is currently teaching and directing at the M.F.A. 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.

Studios

Monday Music

Kellie Wells worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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