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Since 1980 Wyatt Prunty has published seven books of poetry, including What Women Know, What Men Believe, The Run of the House, Since the Noon Mail Stopped, and, most recently, Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems. He is also the author of the acclaimed critical book Fallen >From the Symboled World: Precedents for the New Formalism. His poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, the New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Yale, Southern, Sewanee, and Kenyon Reviews, among other places. He has been the recipient of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and of a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has taught at the Johns Hopkins University (where he held the Elliot Coleman Chair), Washington and Lee University, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference; currently he serves as Carleton Professor of English at the University of the South, where he also directs the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
 
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Elizabeth Grammer, Director
Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference
735 University Avenue
The University of the South
Sewanee, Tennessee 37383-1000
(931) 598-1541