An Alabama native, Professor Amy Weldon teaches creative writing, British Romanticism, Paideia, study-abroad, and more at Luther College, where she codirects the Luther College Writers Festival. She’s the author of The Hands-On Life: How to Wake Yourself Up and Save the World (2018), The Writer's Eye: Observation and Inspiration for Creative Writers (2018), and Eldorado, Iowa: A Novel (2019). Recently, she completed Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein. Her fourth book, Advanced Fiction Writing: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology – featuring Luther students’ short stories and their thoughts on the process, alongside such writers as Angela Carter, Tobias Wolff, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Jorge Luis Borges and some practical career and publishing advice – is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic in January 2023.

Dr. Weldon is a passionate teacher who’s inspired by writing, reading, and traveling with students. Since 2013, she’s led "In Frankenstein's Footsteps: The Keats-Shelley Circle in London, Geneva, and Italy," and in Spring 2019, she directed the London portion of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest's (ACM's) semester-long "London and Florence: Arts in Context" program. Following an unexpected reboot to an on-campus format in January 2022, her course “English Monsters: From Frankenstein to Big Brother” is now rescheduled for January 2023 in London, York, Haworth, and Whitby (UK).

Dr. Weldon’s fiction, creative nonfiction, reviews, and scholarly and pedagogical essays have appeared in a variety of journals, including Vala: The Journal of the Blake Society, Orion, The Common, About Place, Keats-Shelley Journal, Midwestern Gothic, The Hopper, Bloom, The Millions, Los Angeles Review of Books, Journal of the Short Story in English, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Carolina Quarterly, Thumbnail, and Inch. Her work can also be found in edited collections including Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty: Twenty-first Century Approaches, Engaging the Age of Jane Austen: Public Humanities in Practice, Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America , William Faulkner: Critical Perspectives, The Best Travel Writing 2012, and Cornbread Nation: The Best of Southern Food Writing, Vol. 2.  She has been a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference and a participant in the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Conference.

Beyond the page and the classroom, Dr. Weldon can usually be found gardening, cooking, or enjoying a good film.

“I describe my own goals with two interrelated Teaching Verbs: destabilize and rebuild. They aren’t what I do to students—they are what I help students do with their own assumptions, ideas, and skills.”

—Amy Weldon