Cassidy Wells

Cassidy M. Wells earned her Ph.D. in English with a concentration in creative writing from Florida State University and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She's a 2024 Hurston Wrights Fellow and the nonfiction editor at The New Orleans Review. Her work has been published in Everyday Fiction and The New Orleans Review. Her scholarly interests are grounded in Black Quantum Futurism, Afrofuturism, Black Feminist Theory, and is working on the emergent concept of Afroretroism. In her creative interests as a New Orleans native and a Loyola alum, Wells seeks to fill the gaps of literature about her home in the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast that has notably erased the Black identity and experience by blending the roles of speculative and literary fiction in her stories.

Classes Taught

• ENGL T122: Critical Reading/Writing
• ENGL N230: Modern African American Literature

Areas of Expertise

• Creative Writing
• Fiction
• African American Literature
• Afrofuturism
• Speculative Fiction