Amy E. Weldon
Writer. Teacher. Seeker.
Amy Weldon, an Alabama native, is Professor and Department Head of English and Dennis M. Jones Chair in the Humanities at Luther College and codirector of the biennial Luther College Writers Festival. She is the author of Creature: A Novel of Mary Shelley and Frankenstein (Sea Crow Press, 2025), Advanced Fiction: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), Eldorado, Iowa: A Novel (Bowen Press Books, 2019), The Writer’s Eye: Observation and Inspiration for Creative Writers (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018), and The Hands-On Life: How to Wake Yourself Up and Save The World (Cascade Books, 2018). Her next book, A Thing of Beauty: Reading the Romantics in a World on Fire, is scheduled for publication by Bloomsbury Academic in 2027.
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My purpose as a teacher is to build students’ capacities for life in our challenging, still-beautiful world, so they can power themselves into the future with knowledge, curiosity, and wonder.
The Cheapskate Intellectual
A journey through matters of spirit, sustainability, and self-reliance
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CREATURE on “Talk of Iowa” public radio podcast!
What fun it was to talk with host Charity Nebbe on the Iowa Public Radio program “Talk of Iowa” yesterday about CREATURE, Mary Shelley, my January-term study-abroad course, and the cloud of witnesses cheering us on. Here’s the podcast: https://www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk-of-iowa/2026-03-03/iowa-author-explores-mary-shelleys-life-beyond-frankenstein
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Barking at the angel.
On the top floor of the Accademia in Florence, in an overlooked panel of a medieval altarpiece, is an image that’s easy to ignore: a shepherd’s dog, barking at the angel who’s suddenly appeared to rouse the obviously startled shepherds from their sleep. There were shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flocks […]
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Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein!
Watched it with a large and lively group of students on a big screen last night (“I haven’t read the book or seen any of the other movies,” one confessed, “I’m just here for Jacob Elordi”) and have to say I was more underwhelmed than I’d hoped to be. (Although I did enjoy the Creature […]
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