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Wells to present for Writing Program Reading Series
By Liam Otten Fiction writer Kellie Wells, Ph.D., assistant professor of English in Arts & Sciences, will read from her work at 8 p.m. Nov. 21 for The Writing Program Reading Series. The reading is free and open to the public and takes place in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, Room 201. A book signing will immediately follow and copies of Wells' work will be available for purchase.
Her fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Prairie Schooner and other journals. "Kellie Wells is a terrific writer -- extremely bold, very funny, always surprising, entirely original," said Marshall Klimasewiski, assistant professor of English. "She seems to me a daring stylist devoted to language who also -- often in a sneaky, wonderfully sly way -- ends up delivering a great story with all the emotional punch one could hope for from more a traditional writer, and with a lot more panache as well." Prior to arriving at the University this fall, Wells taught at Georgia College and State University, where she was the fiction editor of Arts & Letters. She earned master of fine arts degrees from the University of Montana and the University of Pittsburgh and a doctorate in English and creative writing from Western Michigan University. She is originally from Kansas City, Kan. Wells plans to read from "Secession, XX," a piece written in the voices of "impossibly gendered conjoined twins." For more information, call 935-7130. |
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