{"id":4927,"date":"2015-09-16T09:56:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T16:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2015-09-16T09:56:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T16:56:20","slug":"wells-kellie-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4927","title":{"rendered":"WELLS, KELLIE, 1962-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer; teacher of writing. Born&#8211;Kansas City, Kansas, 1962. \u00a0 Education&#8211; University of Kansas, B.A., B.S.; University of Montana, M.F.A.; University of Pittsburgh, M.F.A.; Western Michigan University, Ph. D.\u00a0, 1999. \u00a0Director of the Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis; professor in the MFA in Writing program at the University of Alabama. Publishes short stories in many journals and anthologies. Member of the Advisory Board of the Tusculum Review.\u00a0 Received the Flannery O&#8217;Connor Award for Short Fiction, 2001; the Rona Jaffee Foundation Writers Award, 2002; the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award, 2002.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kellie Wells website; Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Compression Scars. University of Georgia Press, 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Fat Girl, Terrestrial.\u00a0 University of Alabama Press, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Skin. University of Nebraska Press, 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography; Writer; teacher of writing. Born&#8211;Kansas City, Kansas, 1962. \u00a0 Education&#8211; University of Kansas, B.A., B.S.; University of Montana, M.F.A.; University of Pittsburgh, M.F.A.; Western Michigan University, Ph. D.\u00a0, 1999. \u00a0Director of the Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis; professor in the MFA in Writing program at the University of Alabama. Publishes short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4930,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions\/4930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}