Ladies Home Journal: Kory's essay "resonates"

Kory's essay "Really Good for a Girl" leads the anthology She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff. In the essay framed by her childhood desire to be an astronaut and her career in computer science, Kory writes about her mother's legacy of pursuing passions - even when they contradict traditional cultural roles.

Ladies' Home Journal has named Geek to their "Books We Love" list in December 2006 and says this about Kory's essay:

One standout essay comes from computer programmer-cum-writer Kory Wells, who learned from her own strong mother to follow her techie calling, regardless of gender conventions. Her evolution from "good for a girl" student to working mother with a smart daughter of her own will resonate with any woman, geek or not.

Read the entire post on Ladies' Home Journal.

Kory's also mentioned in the Publishers Weekly review of the book, which calls the anthology "jubilant." The book is now available at your local bookseller and at online stores, including here on amazon.com. Amazon has an excerpt of Kory's essay posted here.

Visit www.shessuchageek.com for more about the book and related discussions.

Read Kory in print

Nonfiction

• "Really Good for a Girl" leads the anthology She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff
  
  Available at your favorite independent/local bookstore, or here on amazon.com

Poetry

• "Lesson from John" is forthcoming in Rock & Sling
  
• "Where I'm From," after George Ella Lyon, Anne Shelby, and many others, received 2nd place in the Bat Creek Journal poetry contest and is forthcoming in that journal.
  
• "Phenomena" appears 2007 edition of Kudzu. The poem received an honorable mention in Kudzu's 2007 poetry prize, judged by Kelly Norman Ellis.
  
• "Seating Arrangement" appears in Low Explosions: Writings on the Body, an anthology of poetry and prose from the Knoxville Writers' Guild. More info and ordering info
  

Short Stories

• Kory's short story "Trade Day" is included in Muscadine Lines: A Southern Anthology from Cold Tree Press, edited by Kathy Hardy Rhodes. "Trade Day" received recognition from both the Alabama Writers Conclave and the St. Louis-based Saturday Writers competitions in 2004.
  
  The anthology is available at bookstores and on online. Contact Kory for a signed copy, or order from amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, or Cold Tree Press.
  
  
• "Moving the Bar" was published in the Spring 2006 issue of Active Culture/Birmingham Arts Journal (also available in pdf download)
  

Read Kory's writing online

Nonfiction

• on Southern Hum: "Something Got a Hold of Me: The Passions of Silas House"
  
  
• on Amazon: an excerpt of "Really Good for a Girl" from She's Such a Geek
  

Poetry

• on Southern Hum: "Acquired Taste" and "New Frontier, 1970"

Short Stories

• "Moving the Bar" was published in the Birmingham Arts Journal (pdf download).
  
  A version of this story was also a finalist in the 2004 Nashville Scene Fiction Competition judged by Ann Patchett (author of Bel Canto, one of Kory's favorite books).
  
  
• "Miss Broadway," Kory's first published short story, appears in the journal Long Story Short