Elizabeth Elkin Grammer, Director (Academic Year) |
 Elizabeth Grammer, an Assistant Professor of English at the University of the South, founded the Young Writers’ Conference in 1993 and was its full-time director until 2010. Now she directs the program during the academic year and turns it over to co-director Kim Bell in June and July. A graduate of Davidson College, she holds the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Virginia. She is the author of a critically acclaimed scholarly book, Some Wild Visions: Autobiographies by Female Itinerant Evangelists in Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2003). Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Arizona Quarterly, The Journal of Southern History, American Historical Review, and The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. She is married to John M. Grammer, a professor of English and Director of the Sewanee School of Letters and is the mother of three children. |
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Kim Van Voorhees Bell, Director (Summer)
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 Poet and teacher Kim Van Voorhees Bell received her B.A in English from the University of Iowa, her M.Ed. in Secondary Education from the University of Minnesota, and her M.F.A in Poetry from Boston University, where she won the Paul T. Hurley Prize for Poetry and worked closely with former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. She has taught English and Creative Writing at B.U., where she also founded an exchange program with nearby Boston Arts Academy, and at four preparatory schools including St. Andrew’s-Sewanee, where she also serves as sponsor of the Creative Writing club and as a dorm “mom.” Her poetry has been published in Slate and is being gathered in a book manuscript entitled “The Practice House.” She lives on the St. Andrews-Sewanee School (S.A.S.) campus with her husband, Jeff Bell, the school’s Academic Dean, and their two daughters. |
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Amy Arthur, Coordinator |
 Amy Arthur, born and raised in Mandeville, Louisiana, is a former Sewanee Young Writer and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of the South, where she earned Honors in English and won both the Guerry Prize for Excellence in English and the Tennessee Williams Award for Creative Writing. Her work has appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review and The Iron Horse Literary Review. She is currently pursuing her M.F.A in Poetry in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. In college Arthur worked in the Young Writers’ Conference office and on its dorm staff; now she will work closely with the director and supervise the dorm staff, living with them and the students in the Benedict Hall. |
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