Cheri Bedell Peters

Cheri Bedell Peters is the creative writing programs manager of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, with which she has worked in different capacities for over twenty years. She has taught literature and composition in an adjunct capacity in the English Department of the college. With Jim, her philosopher-photographer husband, and their family, she lives on the Sewanee mountain.

Cheri will be on leave until September 2010. Please direct questions to Kevin Wilson or Caki Wilkinson.

Caki Wilkinson

Caki Wilkinson’s poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Poetry, Yale Review, and other journals. Her collection Circles Where the Head Should Be, which won the 2010 Vassar Miller Prize will be published next spring by University of North Texas Press.

Email: swc[at]sewanee.edu

Phone: 931-598-1141

Kevin Wilson

Kevin Wilson, creative writing administrator of the Conference, is the author of the story collection Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009). His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, and One Story; it has been selected for four editions of the anthology New Stories from the South. He teaches fiction at the University of the South.
Email: kewilson[at]sewanee.edu
Phone: 931-598-1654

Erica Dawson

Erica Dawson holds a PhD in English from University of Cincinnati. Her first collection of poems, Big-Eyed Afraid, was published by Waywiser Press in 2007. She is Assistant Professor of English and Writing at The University of Tampa, and Poetry Editor of the Tampa Review.

Isabel Galbraith

Isabel Galbraith works for the Association of Public Health Laboratories in Silver Spring, MD, and lives in Washington, DC. Her poems have appeared in FIELD, Birmingham Poetry Review, and the Sewanee Theological Review.

Juliana Gray

Juliana Gray, author of the poetry collection The Man Under My Skin (River City Publishing, 2005), is an assistant professor of English at Alfred University in western New York. Recent poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from New South, Hopkins Review, Stone Canoe, River Styx, and elsewhere.

Daniel Groves

Daniel Groves is the author of The Lost Boys (VQR Poetry Series/University of Georgia Press, 2010).  His poems have appeared in Paris Review, Yale Review, Poetry, and elsewhere.

Jonathan Bohr Heinen

Jonathan Bohr Heinen is currently pursuing a PhD in English at Texas Tech University, where he also serves as Senior Managing Editor for Iron Horse Literary Review. His work has appeared in Word Riot and Florida Review.

Hastings Hensel

Hastings Hensel's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in City Paper, South Carolina Review, new south, Hopkins Review, Kitty Snacks, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Yemassee.

Carrie Jerrell

Carrie Jerrell is the author of After the Revival, winner of the 2008 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Image, Subtropics, Yalobusha Review and Measure, among other publications. She is an assistant professor of English at Murray State University, and the Associate Director of Murray State's low-residency MFA program.  

Jake Ricafrente

Jake Ricafrente holds an MFA from The Johns Hopkins University and is pursuing a PhD at Texas Tech University as a Chancellor's Fellow. He will spend the next year in residence at the University of the Philippines as a Rotary Scholar. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cincinnati Review, South Carolina Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and elsewhere.

David Roby

David Roby is a professional playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. He is a member of The Dramatists’ Guild and Actors’ Equity Association. His play Arts and Science won the 2006 Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award and recently received a 2008 publication in Blackbird. He has served as a Graduate Professor in Acting, Oral Interpretation, and Experiencing Theatre at Illinois State University and as Artist-in-Residence at Oklahoma City University. As a member of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival Touring Company, Roby led workshops in Acting, Voice, and Movement in area high schools, community colleges, juvenile detention centers, and women's prisons. In 2008, he was awarded the John N. Wall Fellowship in Playwriting at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and he will be the Tennessee Williams Fellow in Playwriting at the University of the South starting in the fall of 2010.

Adam Vines

Adam Vines teaches at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and edits Birmingham Poetry Review. He has published poetry in North American Review, Greensboro Review, Cincinnati Review, Poet Lore, Barrow Street, Chariton Review, among others.