Michael Wellman

Michael Wellman is a staff writer for Des Moines Public Schools. He is the author of Far from the Trees: The Troubled Sons of an American Neighborhood, a finalist in the 2009 Indie Book Awards, and STUBS: A Father’s Tickets to the Greatest Shows on Earth. Versus the Demons, his first novel, was named a finalist in the 2014 Indie Book Awards for Regional Fiction. He is a regular contributor to The Des Moines Register whose work has appeared in The Iowan and on Iowa Public Radio.