Nancy Bell

Nancy Bell is an Editorial Fellow at The New Territory Magazine. She is both professor of theatre at Saint Louis University and MFA candidate in creative writing at Mississippi University for Women. Her writing is published or forthcoming in StoryQuarterly, North American Review, Shenandoah, Terrain, and Flyway Journal, among others. As Playwright-In-Residence and Literary Manager at the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, she was the founding director of the Confluence Regional Writers Project and a lead artist on the community-based Shakespeare in the Streets program. Her life’s mission to tell great stories with great people, and she is not above hugging trees, or thanking them out loud.