Brandi Wells

Brandi Wells talks about their debut novel, The Cleaner, and discusses the Muppet Babies, writing a character who’s inventing her own world, what constitutes “real work,” what they love about teaching, revising by listening to their book be read to them over and over, weird coworkers, and more! Brandi Wells is the author of the novella, This Boring Apocalypse as well as a full length chapbook of stories, Please Don't Be Upset. Their fiction appears in Puerto Del Sol, Mid-American Review, Tri-Quarterly and many other journals. A native of Georgia, they teach creative writing at California State University, Fullerton.  Their new novel is The Cleaner, an offbeat, darkly clever tale about a night cleaner who discovers a toxic secret about her company’s CEO—and decides to take matters into her own hands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices