Elizabeth
Elkin Grammer is Assistant Professor of English at the
University of the South, where she teaches courses in American
Literature, African American Literature, and Shakespeare.
A graduate of Davidson College, she holds the M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees from the University of Virginia, where she also served
as an instructor. She is the author of the 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 has directed the
Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference since its inception
in 1993. She is married to John M. Grammer, also a professor
of English at the University of the South and Director
of the
Sewanee
School of Letters, and is the mother of three
children. Zoë (13), Jessie (10), and John (8) would
like you to know that they also enjoy the Young Writers’ Conference,
especially Karaoke Night.
Carrie Jerrell received her B.S. in Secondary Education from the University of Evansville and her M.A. from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, where she has also served as a lecturer. Currently, she is pursuing her Ph.D. in English at Texas Tech University as a Chancellor's Fellow. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fringe, Sewanee Theological Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of two Associated Writing Programs Intro Awards and two Pushcart Prize nominations. A former middle-school English teacher and artist-in-residence at Buffalo River National Park, she currently serves as poetry editor for Iron Horse Literary Review. Returning for her second summer as Coordinator of the Sewanee Young Writer’s Conference, Carrie will live in Benedict Dormitory with the students and will supervise the dormitory staff, as well as help supervise the participants and organize recreational and extracurricular activities for the program.