Wyatt Prunty founded and directs the Sewanee Writers' Conference, founded and edits the Sewanee Writers' Series, and teaches in the English department at the University of the South. He has received residencies and fellowships from the Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and Brown Foundations. In addition to his books of poetry, he is the author of Fallen from the Symboled World, a discussion of the New Formalism and contemporary poetry, and editor of Sewanee Writers on Writing. He lives in Sewanee, Tennessee.