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Kellie Wells is a writer of startling imagination whose "phantasmal stories, " Booklist says, "shimmer with a dreamlike vibrancy." God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna, Wells's second collection of short stories and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, is populated with the world's castoffs, cranks, and inveterate oddballs, the deeply aggrieved, the ontologically challenged, the misunderstood mopes that haunt the shadowy wings ...

Kellie Wells is a writer of startling imagination whose "phantasmal stories, " Booklist says, "shimmer with a dreamlike vibrancy." God, the Moon, and Other Megafauna, Wells's second collection of short stories and winner of the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, is populated with the world's castoffs, cranks, and inveterate oddballs, the deeply aggrieved, the ontologically challenged, the misunderstood mopes that haunt the shadowy wings ...

Not only the story of a colossus of a woman living in Kansas, " Fat Girl, Terrestrial" is also a meditation on God, treachery, and blind love.

The eleven stories in Kellie Wells's debut collection cover a wide range of eccentric characters - from a young girl experiencing her friend's strange demise to a set of opposite-sex conjoined twins. Forced to deal with the debilitating confines of the physical world, usually manifest in some kind of deformity or affliction, from compression scars to mysterious blue skin, Wells's characters struggle to transcend their existential disappointmen...

Kellie Wells is an assistant professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Her collection of short fiction, Compression Scars, won the 2001 Flannery O¿Connor Award from the University of Georgia Press and the 2003 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award.

The eleven stories in Kellie Wells's debut collection cover a wide range of eccentric characters -- from a young girl experiencing her friend's strange demise, to a set of opposite-sex conjoined twins. Forced to deal with the debilitating confines of the physical world -- usually manifest in some kind of deformity or affliction, from compression scars to mysterious blue skin -- Wells's characters struggle to transcend their existential disappo...