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Camille Dungy
Camille Dungy was a Tennessee Williams Scholar in Poetry in 2001. In 2006, she published her first collection, What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison, a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Library of Virginia Literary Award. Her most recent collection is Suck on the Marrow. She is editor of Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and coeditor of From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great. Her poems have appeared in Missouri Review, Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, Poetry Daily, and many other publications. Dungy is currently Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.
William Gay
William Gay first came to the conference in 1999 as a Tennessee Williams Scholar. Later that year, Gay published his first novel, The Long Home, which received the James A. Michener Memorial Prize. Gay returned to Sewanee in 2000 as a Walter A. Dakin Fellow and served as the Tennessee Williams Fellow for the 2000-2001 academic year. Gay then published another novel, Provinces of Night, and a collection of stories, I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down, which contained stories that had been published in the Missouri Review, Georgia Review, Oxford American, Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's. His stories have also been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South, O. Henry Awards Prize Stories, Best New American Voices, and Best American Mystery Stories. In 2006, he published his third novel, Twilight, and was named a USA Ford Foundation Fellow by United States Artists. In 2010, MacAdam/Cage will publish his new novel, The Lost Country.
Stewart O’Nan
Stewart O'Nan was awarded a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Fiction in 1995, having published a collection of stories, In the Walled City (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993), and a novel, Snow Angels (Doubleday, 1994). The following year, he was selected by Granta as one of America's Best Young Novelists, and he published another novel, The Names of the Dead (Doubleday, 1996). He has since published ten more novels, including A Prayer for the Dying (Henry Holt, 1999), The Night Country (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003), and Last Night at the Lobster (Viking, 2007). He has also written two books of nonfiction, The Circus Fire (Doubleday, 2000) and Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season (with Stephen King) (Scribner, 2004). He returned to Sewanee in 2001 as a visitor. He currently lives in Pittsburgh, PA.
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