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About Kory Kory Wells' writing has captured the attention of Ladies' Home Journal and the William Faulkner competition. Her addictions include coffee, poetry, and afternoon naps. Her "real job" is with a software company where she used to write code - and now oversees corporate communications.
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Kory Wells grew up on the stories of her southern Appalachian family and the wonder of the Space Age. Equally influenced by each, her career has spun into an unexpected but happy tangle of software development, creative writing, and public speaking. The intersection of Kory's dual careers occurs in her essay “Really Good for a Girl” which leads the anthology She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff. Ladies Home Journal picked Geek as one of its December 2006 “Books We Love” and singled out Kory’s writing that will “resonate with any woman, geek or not.” Kory's short stories, essays, and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Rock & Sling, Pindeldyboz, Muscadine Lines: A Southern Anthology, Birmingham Arts Journal, Southern Hum, Kudzu, Low Explosions: Writings on the Body, and other publications. She is currently seeking a publisher for her first novel, which was a finalist in the prestigious William Faulkner competition. A software developer for many years, Kory now serves as chief communications officer for a Nashville-area Fortune 50 software company, a job which, as her husband often reminds her, pays considerably better than poetry. She is a summa cum laude graduate with a B.S. in computer science and an M.S. in industrial studies from Middle Tennessee State University. Kory's lived most of her life in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where she now resides with her husband, two children, and a stubborn but sweet Basset hound, Max. She is the daughter of railroader Jim Green and writer Judy Lee Green. Much of her extended family are from the north Georgia and north Alabama areas. Kory's grandmother, a great storyteller in her own right, was a sharecropper’s daughter from Varnell, Georgia, whose own grandmother was a Cherokee Indian. Kory has also been a small business owner, college instructor, student pilot, Girl Scout leader, Sunday school teacher, copy editor and shoe store clerk. She's always wanted to be an astronaut and a country singer. She owns a fantasy baseball team, always wears sensible shoes, and has a penchant for bracelets and dangly earrings. ### For press purposes (right-click to save):
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