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Wells Tower

Wells Tower
Wells Tower was born in Vancouver in 1973. He is the recipient of The Paris Review Discovery Prize, a Pushcart Prize and a Henfield Foundation award.

He lives in North Carolina. His debut is the startling, savagely funny Everything Ravaged Everything Burned.

“Wells Tower is a blindingly brilliant writer who does more than raise the bar for debut fiction: he hurls it into space.
Ben Marcus, author of The Age of Wire and String
Wells Tower will be appearing in:

Enjoy a morning cup of tea with some of our best writers. Today's writers: Jennifer Mackenzie, Michael Meehan, Wells Tower and Chris Flynn.
Enjoy a morning cup of tea with some of our best writers. Today's writers: Jennifer Mackenzie, Michael Meehan, Wells Tower and Chris Flynn.
Pushcart prize-winning short story writer Wells Tower in conversation.
Pushcart prize-winning short story writer Wells Tower in conversation.
Pushcart prize-winning short story writer Wells Tower in conversation.
Pushcart prize-winning short story writer Wells Tower in conversation.
Pushcart prize-winning short story writer Wells Tower in conversation.
Pushcart prize-winning short story writer Wells Tower in conversation.
Featuring McSweeney’s own Eli Horowitz and authors Heidi Julavits and Wells Tower.
Featuring McSweeney’s own Eli Horowitz and authors Heidi Julavits and Wells Tower.
SOLD OUT A workshop with Wells Tower on short stories.
SOLD OUT A workshop with Wells Tower on short stories.