Much of what we do as writers we do alone, to the tick of our home clocks, guided by writers with whom we mostly keep company on the page. But all of that changes in an instant on the Mountain. At Sewanee, you are in the presence of distinct lyric voices and true storytellers. During readings, I loved glancing down the rows. The alert expressions distilled for me the essence of Sewanee: a readiness to be delighted, surprised, and engaged. – Catherine Staples

2024 Fellows

River Adams
River Adams (they/them) is a Russian-born Jewish American author. After careers in music, medicine, and academia, they earned an MFA degree from Emerson College and now live in Massachusetts, caring for their family and writing. They are the author of many short stories and a biography of Leonard Swidler, There Must Be YOU (Wipf&Stock, 2014). Their debut novel, The Light of Seven Days (Delphinium/HarperCollins, 2023) has been named a finalist by the National Jewish Book Awards. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Ariana Benson
Ariana Benson is a southern Black ecopoet. Their debut collection, Black Pastoral (University of Georgia Press, 2023) won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Leonard Prize. A Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow, Benson has also received the Furious Flower Poetry Prize and the Graybeal Gowen Prize for Virginia Poets. Her words appear or are forthcoming in POETRY Magazine, Ploughshares, Poem-a-Day, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Benson is a proud alumna of Spelman College, where she facilitates creative writing workshops for HBCU students. Through her writing, she strives to fashion vignettes of Blackness that speak to its infinite depth and richness. (Wyatt Prunty Fellow)

KB Brookins
KB Brookins is a writer, cultural worker, and artist from Texas. They are the author of How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press 2022), Freedom House (Deep Vellum 2023), and Pretty (Alfred A. Knopf 2024). Follow them online at @earthtokb. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Xavier Clark
Xavier Clark is a multidisciplinary theatre artist from Turkey with West African roots. His plays include ICONS (dev.: IAMA Theatre Emerging Playwrights Lab, 2024 O’Neill NPC Finalist), backstroke boys (dev.: Fault Line Theatre, 2021 Blue Ink Award Finalist), supper (dev.: National Black Theatre, 2022 O’Neill NPC Finalist), retrofit(s) (dev.: UC San Diego, 2019 Lark Playwrights Week Finalist), and Where Angels Fear to Tread (dev.: Echo Theatre Company). BFA: NYU Tisch, MFA: UC San Diego, Faculty: Stella Adler Studio. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Lydi Conklin
Lydi Conklin has received a Stegner, four Pushcart Prizes, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Creative Writing Fulbright, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and elsewhere. Their fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, One Story, McSweeney’s, and American Short Fiction. Their story collection, Rainbow Rainbow, was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award and The Story Prize. Their novel, Songs of No Provenance, is forthcoming in 2025. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Madeleine Cravens
Madeleine Cravens is the author of the poetry collection Pleasure Principle (Scribner, 2024). A 2022-2024 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, her work can be found in The New Yorker, The Nation, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of fellowships from Columbia University, MacDowell, and the New York State Summer Writers’ Institute. She was raised in Brooklyn and lives in Oakland. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Mary-Alice Daniel
Mary-Alice Daniel was born near the Niger/Nigeria border, then raised in England and Tennessee. Mass for Shut-Ins (2023), her first poetry collection, won the 117th Yale Younger Poets Prize and the California Book Award. Her memoir, A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing (Ecco/HarperCollins 2022), was People’s Book of the Week and one of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Nonfiction Books of the Year. She writes her third and fourth books as a scholar at Princeton University. (Cave Canem Fellow)

Gen Del Raye (廣江 弦)
Gen Del Raye (廣江 弦) was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan. His writing has appeared in The Gettysburg Review and Poetry Northwest, among others, and has been anthologized in Best New Poets 2019 and Best Small Fictions 2017. His debut short story collection, Boundless Deep, and Other Stories (University of Nebraska Press), won the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction and was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Kimi Eisele
Kimi Eisele is a writer and multidisciplinary artist in Tucson. Her work seeks to illuminate connections among humans, plants, non-human animals, and landscapes. She is the author of THE LIGHTEST OBJECT IN THE UNIVERSE (Algonquin, 2019), a novel, and her nonfiction has appeared in Guernica, Longreads, Orion, High Country News, Terrain.org, and elsewhere. She is a folklorist with the Southwest Folklife Alliance, where she edits BorderLore and curates public programs honoring diverse cosmologies, occupations, and cultural practices. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Sean Enfield
Sean Enfield is an essayist, poet, gardener, bassist, and educator. His debut collection of essays, Holy American Burnout!, was published by Split/Lip Press in December 2023. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Currently, he serves as an Assistant Non Fiction Editor at Terrain.org. You can find his work at seanenfield.com. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Robert W. Fieseler
Robert W. Fieseler is a National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association “Journalist of the Year” and the author of Tinderbox—winner of the Edgar Award and the Louisiana Literary Award, shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize for Writing. As a Tulane PhD history candidate and Mellon Fellow, Fieseler is currently working on his second queer history book, a finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. He lives with his husband and kittens in New Orleans. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Benjamin Garcia
Benjamin Garcia is a 2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in poetry. His first collection, Thrown in the Throat, was selected for the National Poetry Series, the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He worked for ten years as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in New York’s Finger Lakes region, where he received the Jill Gonzalez Health Educator Award recognizing contributions to HIV treatment and prevention. A CantoMundo and Lambda Literary fellow, he serves as core faculty at Alma College’s low-residency MFA program. His poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in: AGNI, American Poetry Review, Indiana Review, Kenyon Review, and New England Review. (CantoMundo Fellow)

Franky D. Gonzalez
Franky D. Gonzalez is a playwright and TV writer based in Dallas. His work has been developed and produced across the country and has garnered the Judith Royer Award for Excellence in Playwriting, the Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Grand Prize, the Crossroads Project Diverse Playwriting Initiative, the MetLife Nuestras Voces Playwriting Award, an MTC/Sloan Commission, and two Non-Equity Jeff Awards. Franky is also a Playwrights Center Core Writer, and the Bishop Arts Theatre Center Playwright-in-Residence. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Jean Chen Ho
Jean Chen Ho is the author of Fiona and Jane, named one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022; a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Vulture, Vogue, Oprah Daily, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, and Elle; and longlisted for the Story Prize. Her writing appears in New York Times Magazine, The Cut, Electric Literature, Los Angeles Times, Guernica, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Chapman University. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Pan Huiting
Pan Huiting is the author of Red Dust, White Snow (Fairlight Books, 2023). She completed a Master of Arts at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, and a Master of Research in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, London. Huiting has taught courses in global art and art criticism at NTU, and has displayed her art internationally. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Andrea Jurjević
Andrea Jurjević is a Croatian multigenre writer, literary translator, and visual artist. She is the author of poetry collections: In Another Country (2022 Saturnalia Books Prize), Small Crimes (2015 Philip Levine Prize) and Nightcall (2021 ACME Poem Company Surrealist Series selection). Her book-length translations from Croatian include Olja Savičević’s Mamasafari (Diálogos Press, 2018) and Marko Pogačar’s Dead Letter Office (The Word Works, 2020), which was shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Yalie Saweda Kamara
Yalie Saweda Kamara is a Sierra Leonean American writer, educator, and researcher from Oakland, California. Serving as the current Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate and a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, she is the author of the debut full-length collection Besaydoo (Milkweed Editions, 2024), winner of the 2022-2023 Jake Adam York Prize. Kamara earned a PhD in Creative Writing and English Literature from the University of Cincinnati. She is an assistant professor of English at Xavier University and resides in Cincinnati. For more, please visit: www.yaylala.com (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Kien Lam
Kien Lam is the author of Extinction Theory (2021 National Poetry Series UGA Press). He received his MFA from Indiana University and is the Kundiman SoCal co-chair. He lives in Los Angeles where he most recently worked as a writer in esports and as a writer and producer on Players (Paramount+), a mockumentary following a fictional League of Legends team. He is currently working on a novel. (Kundiman Fellow) 

Ananda Lima
Ananda Lima is a poet, fiction writer, and translator, the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books, 2024) and Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in four chapbooks, including Amblyopia (Bull City Press), as well as publications such as The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Witness, and elsewhere. Lima currently serves as a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers and Program Curator at StoryStudio, Chicago. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers University, Newark. Craft, her fiction debut, has received starred reviews from Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, and The New York Times describes it as “a remarkable debut that announces the arrival of a towering talent in speculative fiction.” Originally from Brazil, she lives in Chicago. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Alexis Elisa Macedo
Alexis Elisa Macedo (she/her) is a versatile performer, tenacious playwright, and unapologetic Chicana. She crafts campy, imaginative paper playgrounds for generational trauma breakers protecting their inner child. Education: Advanced Playwriting - National Theater Institute, Fresno State - BA, Theater Arts. Awards: Individual Artist Fellowship, California Arts Council; Miranda Family Fellow Alum. Original Works: Red Hood(ie) Lime Arts Productions, published by Next Stage Press; CHICANA LEGEND, The Fools Collaborative, SheATL Arts; Teatro Espejo Upcoming: Under the Sheet, Moxie NYC Arts - August 2024 Other: www.alexiselisamacedo.com (The Sol Project Fellow)

John Milas
John Milas is the author of the forthcoming novel The Militia House (Henry Holt, 2023). He enlisted in the US Marine Corps at age nineteen and subsequently deployed to the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in support of OEF 10.1. He was honorably discharged from active service in 2012. After his discharge, he earned both his BA and MFA in creative writing. As a student. He enjoys engaging with his local literary community by attending readings, hosting workshops at his hometown library, and judging creative writing contests, which he has done since 2015. He has also read submissions for literary magazines such as Sycamore Review and Ninth Letter and has completed various freelance assignments as a journalist and editor. He grew up in Illinois, where he currently reads, writes, and watches baseball. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Jamila Minnicks
Jamila Minnicks' debut novel Moonrise Over New Jessup (Algonquin Books, 2023) won the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and the 2024 BCALA First Novelist Award, and was a finalist for the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Jamila's short fiction and essays are published in Ploughshares, The Sun, and elsewhere, and her work has been supported by the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Jamila is a graduate of the University of Michigan, the Howard University School of Law, and the Georgetown University Law Center. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

David Philip Mullins
David Philip Mullins is the author of Greetings from Below, a story collection, and The Brightest Place in the World, a novel, which won the Nebraska Book Award. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his work has appeared in The Yale Review, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, and elsewhere. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo, and the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Joanna Pearson
Joanna Pearson’s debut novel, Bright and Tender Dark, was just published and is a June Indie Next Pick. She’s also the author of two short story collections, Now You Know It All, chosen by Edward P. Jones for the 2021 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, and Every Human Love. Her fiction has recently appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery and Suspense, The Missouri Review, Colorado Review, and other places. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Natasha Rao
Natasha Rao is the author of Latitude, selected by Ada Limón as the winner of the 2021 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. The recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship, she has also received support from Bread Loaf, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Community of Writers. Her work appears in The Nation, American Poetry Review, Yale Review, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from NYU. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

m.s. RedCherries
m.s. RedCherries received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a JD from Arizona State University College of Law. She is a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation and lives in Brooklyn. Her debut collection, mother, is forthcoming from Penguin Books in July 2024. (In-Na-Po Fellow)

Carl(os) Roa
Carl(os) Roa (they/elle) is an interdisciplinary artist and transmedia storyteller. A proud alumni of the Headlong Performance Institute and Drexel University, (os)’ work explores the marginalized within the marginalized, and alternative communities living alternative lives. Taking cues from theatre, community organizing, dystopian novels, queer digital realms, anime, third culture kids, the kink scene, transformative justice, and interactive media, these influences serve to inform their work with a visual artist’s sensibility. (The Sol Project Fellow)

Lubna Safi
Lubna Safi’s debut poetry collection Your Blue and the Quiet Lament won the Walt McDonald First Book Prize in Poetry and was an honorable mention for the Arab American Book Award in Poetry. Her poems and essays have been published in Guernica, The Journal, MIZNA, and elsewhere. She is currently working on her second manuscript, Cut Effect, for which she earned an MA in Creative Writing from UC Berkeley in 2024. She teaches occasionally at The Loft Literary Center. (RAWI Fellow)

Maya Salameh
Maya Salameh is the author of How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave (University of Arkansas Press, 2022), winner of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize and finalist for the California Book Award, as well as the chapbook rooh (Paper Nautilus Press, 2020). She has received support in the form of fellowships from the Breadloaf Environmental Writers’ Conference, Institute for Diversity in Arts, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, and the President’s Committee for the Arts and Humanities. Her work has appeared in POETRY, The Rumpus, AGNI, ANMLY, and the LA Times, among others. She can be found @mayaslmh or mayasalameh.com. (RAWI Fellow)

Cintia Santana
Cintia Santana teaches literary translation and poetry workshops in Spanish and English at Stanford University. Santana's poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2016 and 2020, 2023 Best of the Net Anthology, Poets.org, Poetry Daily, Split this Rock, and in numerous journals. Her debut poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Books, 2023), received the 2023 North American Book Award’s Silver Medal in Poetry and was short-listed for the 2023 Golden Poppy Award in Poetry. (CantoMundo Fellow)

Dakota Silvey
Dakota Silvey is a playwright, EMT, wildland firefighter, and Air Force veteran. Dakota’s work has been supported by Daisy Theatricals, AITAF, Broadway Bookclub, 24 Bond Arts and VetRep Theater. His play The Maker was recently selected for the William Inge Festival’s New Play Lab. He is a member of the Cut Edge Experimental Theatre Writing Collective. Dakota is currently pursuing his M.F.A. at the Actors Studio Drama School. DakotaSilvey.com. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Katie Tastrom
Katie Tastrom is a disability justice activist and writer who has worked as a lawyer, social worker, and sex worker. A People’s Guide to Abolition and Disability Justice, was released by PM Press in May 2024. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies Burn It Down: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution and Nourishing Resistance: Stories of Food, Protest, and Mutual Aid, as well as all over the internet. She resides in Syracuse, NY. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

Marlena Williams
Marlena Williams is a writer from Portland, Oregon. She is the author of the essay collection Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of the Exorcist. You can find her other work in Witness, the Yale Review, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She is currently attending Tulane Law School in New Orleans. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

2024 Scholars

Joshua Ambre
Joshua Ambre (he/him) is a writer whose work explores the ways in which queerness renounces, renews, or otherwise redefines existing relationships. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Hypertext Review, The Brooklyn Review, Cleaver Magazine, Sequestrum, and Fiction International. Joshua was also named a Very Short Fiction runner-up at the 2023 Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Fiction at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Alissa M. Barr
Alissa M. Barr is a registered nurse and writer from Alleghany County, Virginia. She has received support through a scholarship from The Rona Jaffe Foundation to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Poet Lore, Muzzle Magazine, and elsewhere. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Jake Bartman
Jake Bartman’s stories have appeared in Story, Ninth Letter, Minnesota Review, Columbia Journal, Booth, and elsewhere. His story “Night Swim” earned a 2021 Pushcart special mention, and in 2023, he received his MFA in fiction writing from the University of Florida. He lives in New Mexico. (Stanley Elkin Scholar)

Bella Bravo
Bella Bravo is a fiction writer living in Seattle. Their stories have appeared in NY Tyrant and Driftless Magazine. They earned a MFA in fiction at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where they received a Chancellor’s Fellowship and the August Derleth Graduate Creative Writing Prize. This past year they were the Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in Nonfiction at Pacific Lutheran University. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Matthew Frye Castillo
Matthew Frye Castillo is the author of One Headlight: A Memoir. His stories have appeared in The Anchorage Daily News, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Worn in New York, which was featured in the Netflix adaptation, Worn Stories. He teaches in the English Department of Lehman College, leads Lehman’s LGBTQIA+ Consortium, and directs the Program for Professional Communications. He is at work on an essay collection about mixed-race identity and redefining oneself. matthewfryecastillo.com (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Agnes Chew
Agnes Chew is the author of Eternal Summer of My Homeland (Epigram Books, 2023)—longlisted for The Asian Prize for Fiction—and The Desire for Elsewhere (Math Paper Press, 2016). Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, Necessary Fiction and wildness, among others, and won the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Asia). She has received scholarships from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Tin House, and Nuoren Voiman Liiton. Originally from Singapore, she is now based in Germany. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Rob Macaisa Colgate
Rob Macaisa Colgate (he/she/they) is the author of the poetry collection Hardly Creatures (Tin House, 2025) and the verse drama My Love is Water (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025). His work has received support from MacDowell, Fulbright, Lambda Literary, and the Kenyon Review, among others. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta and managing poetry editor at Foglifter. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Jack Cummings
Jack Cummings (he/him) is a playwright and performer who writes dark comedies. His work has been performed at The Luna Stage, Burgdorff Cultural Center, and City Lit Theater. He is a Judith Royer Award Finalist and an Austin Film Festival Second-Rounder. He is an alumni of the William Esper Studio in NYC and Chicago's iO Theater. B.A. English, Montclair State University. @jackangelocummings. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Lacey N. Dunham
Lacey N. Dunham's novel The Belles will be published by Simon & Schuster / Atria in fall 2025. Her writing has received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and Catapult and appears in Ploughshares, Witness, the Kenyon Review, The Normal School, Southwest Review, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others. She lives in Washington, DC. Learn more at www.laceyndunham.com. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Cody Dunn
Cody Dunn is a poet living and working in the DMV. His poems have appeared in Foglifter and The Indiana Review and have been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He holds an MFA from Boston University. (Anthony Hecht Scholar)

David Ehmcke
David Ehmcke received an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. His work has appeared in the New Delta Review, Black Warrior Review, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. Recently, David was awarded the Maureen Egen Award from Poets & Writers and was named the runner-up of the Meridian Editors’ Prize and the Black Warrior Review Prize. He lives in St. Louis, where he teaches poetry to undergraduates and is at work on a first book of poems. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Abdelrahman ElGendy
Abdelrahman ElGendy is an Egyptian writer, translator, and activist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His writing appears in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Guernica, AGNI, Mizna, and elsewhere. ElGendy is a 2024-25 Steinbeck fellow, a 2022 Dietrich fellow at the University of Pittsburgh’s Nonfiction Writing MFA, and a Heinz fellow at Pitt's Global Studies Center. His work has received awards or scholarships from Tin House Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Community of Writers Workshop. He is the winner of the 2024 Courage to Write award by the de Groot Foundation, and was a finalist for the 2021 and 2023 Margolis Award for Social Justice Journalism. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Gillian Esquivia-Cohen
Gillian Esquivia-Cohen’s fiction and narrative nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in New England Review, Guernica, and The Idaho Review, and her translations in The Arkansas International and Latin American Literature Today. A graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, she teaches writing at Auburn University and in prisons through the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project. A dual citizen of the US and Colombia, she lives between Alabama and Bogotá. (Cheri Peters Scholar)

Farnaz Fatemi
Farnaz Fatemi is an Iranian American poet from Santa Cruz, CA, and author of Sister Tongue زبان خواهر, (Kent State University Press, 2022). She is Santa Cruz County’s current poet laureate and a founding member of The Hive Poetry Collective. Farnaz is a current Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellow. Her poems and lyric essays appear in Kenyon Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, No Tokens Journal, Poets.org, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Rosa Boshier González
Rosa Boshier González is a writer and editor living in Houston. Her fiction, essays, and art criticism appear in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, Joyland, Artforum, The Guardian, The Believer, and The Washington Post, among others. She is a former editor-in-chief of Gulf Coast Journal. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Hannah Gregory
Hannah Gregory is a trans, queer writer based in Western Massachusetts. She was a Lambda Literary Fellow in Fiction, and an alum of the Tin House Summer and Winter Workshops. Her fiction has appeared in The Normal School, Passages North, Taco Bell Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a novel and story collection. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Sarah Harshbarger
Sarah Harshbarger is a PhD candidate at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she currently serves as editor-in-chief of Grist. Their stories have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Passages North, The Sewanee Review, West Branch, and elsewhere. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Javeria Hasnain
Javeria Hasnain is the author of SIN (Chestnut Review), a chapbook of poems forthcoming in July 2024. She is a Fulbright scholar and an MFA Poetry candidate at The New School. Her poems and prose have appeared/are forthcoming in Poet Lore, The Brazenhead Review, Foglifter, and Pleiades, among more. She was born and raised in Karachi, and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Kristen Herbert
Kristen Herbert is a fiction writer and translator from the Chicago area, currently an MFA in Creative Writing candidate at University of California-Riverside. Her translations of contemporary Hungarian poetry have been published in the Los Angeles Review, Waxwing, New Delta Review, and Columbia Journal Online, and her translation of Rita Halász’s novel Deep Breath will be released by Catapult in 2025. She is a Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason scholar and Community of Writers alum. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Melissa Hung
Melissa Hung is a writer and journalist who grew up in Houston, Texas, the eldest child of Chinese immigrants. She is the founding editor in chief of Hyphen, an independent Asian American magazine. Her writing has appeared in Longreads, Catapult, wildness, Vogue, and the anthologies Body Language and Disability Intimacy. Among the things she has written about: a family-run tofu factory, Chinatowns, grief, enduring chronic pain, and the myth of authentic foods. Melissahung.xyz (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Brynne Jones
Brynne Jones is a writer from east Tennessee. Her fiction has appeared in The Iowa Review and The Missouri Review Online, and was named a finalist in 2023 for the DISQUIET Literary Prize, the swamp pink Fiction Prize, and New Letters’s Robert Day Award for Fiction. She lives in Austin, Texas, where she received her MFA in Fiction & Screenwriting from the Michener Center for Writers. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Xiaoyan Kang
Born and raised in China, Xiaoyan Kang developed a strong interest in playwriting while studying under Philip Kan Gotanda at Berkeley. She has been an O’Neil Semifinalist, BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition Regional Winner, and KCACTF Region 5 Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award Recipient. Some of her short plays have been developed at 24 Hour Plays: Nationals and KCACTF(Region 5). Xiaoyan is currently an MFA candidate at the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. (Horton Foote Scholar)

Courtney Kersten
Courtney Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018). Her essays have been awarded the Bellingham Review’s Annie Dillard Award in Nonfiction, the Southern Indiana Review’s Mary C. Mohr Award in Nonfiction, and Crazyhorse’s Nonfiction Award. She was a Fulbright Fellow to Riga, Latvia, and is a 2024-2025 American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellow. She is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Dakota. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Billy Lezra
Billy Lezra (they/them) is an MFA candidate in nonfiction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and has contributed work to Electric Literature, The Washington Post, CNN, Insider, TODAY, and elsewhere. They are the editor-in-chief of Rough Cut Press, a fellow of the 2023 Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop, and a participant of the 2024 Tin House Winter Workshop. You can reach Billy at billylezra.com and @b.lezra on Instagram. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

M Lin
Born and raised in Beijing, Mengyin “M” Lin writes in English as her second language. Her short story collection, The Memory Museum, is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2026. She can be found at mengyinlin.com. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Stephanie Macias
Stephanie Macias is a writer living in Austin, TX. She is a graduate of the New Writers Project at the University of Texas. Her work has appeared and is forthcoming in Brink, No Tokens, Southern Humanities Review, Crazyhorse, and more. Between the years of 2003 and 2016, she made her living as a touring singer-songwriter, an illustrator, a photographer, and a painter. She is the managing editor at American Short Fiction. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Lizz Mangan
Lizz Mangan (they/them) is a playwright, dramaturg, and educator who focuses on queering theater in subject and structure. Lizz's work has been produced by companies such as The Tank, Gadfly Theatre, American Stage Theatre Company, and more across the country. Recent recognitions: Art House Productions' 2023 - 2024 INKubator Playwrights Program (Finalist), and SheNYC's 2024 Summer Play Festival (Semi-Finalist). When not writing, Lizz can be found bowling or falling into various internet rabbit holes. lizzmangan.com (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Marianne Manzler
Marianne Manzler is a writer, educator, and editor. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays 2022, Fourth Genre, The Seventh Wave magazine, 5280, and elsewhere, and she has received support from Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Sundress Publications, Anderson Center, and Vermont Studio Center. Marianne holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, where she was the recipient of the Grace Milliman Pollock Fellowship and won the Eugene Van Buren Fiction Award. Within the past decade, she has served as a Fulbright scholar, AmeriCorps member, and Urban Leaders Policy Fellow. She lives in Minneapolis, MN, with her partner and two dogs, where she is working on her memoir-in-essays and is the Program Manager of Education at the Loft Literary Center. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Maya Marshall
Maya Marshall, author of All the Blood Involved in Love, holds fellowships from MacDowell, Cave Canem, and Bread Loaf Environmental. She is an assistant professor of English at Adelphi University. Marshall co-founded underbelly, the journal on the practical magic of poetic revision. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, The Rumpus, Boston Review, and Best New Poets. She is an editor at Haymarket Books. (Claudia Emerson Scholar)

Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
Raised in Alabama, New Mexico and West Texas, Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos’s aesthetic view is a fusion of Southern Appalachian and Southwest U.S. cultures. Winner of the Southern Playwrights Competition and Stage Raw (Los Angeles) playwriting award, she is a BAPF Finalist and Semi-Finalist, a Garry Marshall Finalist, a Stowe Story Labs Finalist, an O’Neill Semi-Finalist, and a two-time Princess Grace Semi-Finalist. Her plays have been produced or developed by theaters from Off-Off-Broadway to LA, Chicago to Chile. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Clare Needham
Clare Needham is the author of the novella Bad Books, published by Ploughshares Solos. Her work has appeared in The Drift, New York Tyrant, The Stinging Fly, and The Missouri Review, among many other publications. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from Hunter College, the Elizabeth George Foundation, MacDowell, Yaddo, Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in New York City. (Peter Taylor Scholar)

Olakunle Ologunro
Olakunle Ologunro is a Nigerian writer. His work has appeared in Story, Lolwe, the Queer Africa anthology, and elsewhere. He was a finalist for the Gerald Kraak award and the 2020 Adina Talve-Goodman fellowship from One Story. He received his MFA from Johns Hopkins University and is at work on a collection of stories. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Heather Wells Peterson
Heather Wells Peterson’s work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Subtropics, Bellevue Literary Review, Wigleaf, Prairie Schooner, Literary Hub, Marie Claire, and elsewhere. She has lived in many strange places, but none as strange as Las Vegas, where she is now pursuing a PhD in Fiction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with a fellowship from the Black Mountain Institute. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Chi S.
Chi S. is a Chinese American writer and a 2023 Lambda Literary Fellow. She is a co-founder of sinθ magazine. Her fiction is in Best Small Fictions 2024, New Ohio Review, American Literary Review, AAWW, and others. She was a Semifinalist for American Short Fiction’s 2023 Halifax Ranch Prize. Her debut manuscript about a band of three women of color amid the mid-2000’s emo/pop-punk explosion is out for submission (Rep: Isabel Kaufman at Fox Literary). (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Samyak Shertok
Samyak Shertok’s poems appear in The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, POETRY, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. A finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and the Jake Adam York Prize, he has received the Robert and Adele Schiff Award, the Gulf Coast Prize, and the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. Originally from Nepal, he is currently the inaugural Hughes Fellow in Poetry at Southern Methodist University. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Dujie Tahat
Dujie Tahat is the author of three chapbooks: Here I Am O My God, selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship; Salat, winner of the Tupelo Press Sunken Garden Chapbook Award and longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection; and Balikbayan, finalist for The New Michigan Press / DIAGRAM chapbook contest and the Center for Book Arts honoree. Along with Luther Hughes and Gabrielle Bates, they cohost The Poet Salon podcast. (Donald Justice Scholar)

Kat Tang
Kat Tang is an ex-lawyer turned fiction writer with an MFA from Columbia University. She enjoys boxed wine, repurposing leftovers, and harassing her cat. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, Electric Literature, The Margins, Pigeon Pages, among others. She spends most of her time thinking about writing and sometimes she even writes. (Randall Kenan Scholar)

Luke Tennis
Luke Tennis has published fiction in various places both online and in print. His work has been generously supported by two fiction writing grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, as well as the Tucson Book Festival Literary Prize, The Phoebe Magazine Short Story Prize, Prime Numbers Flash Fiction Prize, and others. His award-winning novella, Bernardo the Daredevil, is published by St. Andrews Press. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and two children. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Matt Thekkethala
Matt Thekkethala is a playwright and performer based in Austin, Texas. He writes absurdist comedies that are cheekily curious about our capacity to forgive one another. He has developed work with The NOLA Project, Goat in the Road Productions, and Westmont Fringe. In 2020, he released Now More Than Ever, an episodic radio play, on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Matt is currently pursuing a M.F.A. in Playwriting from UT Austin’s Michener Center for Writers. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Alex Tretbar
Alex Tretbar is the author of the chapbook Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep, 2025). As a Writers for Readers Fellow with the Kansas City Public Library, he teaches free writing classes to the community. His poems and essays appear or are forthcoming in The Cincinnati Review, Four Way Review, Kenyon Review, Narrative, Poetry Northwest, The Rumpus, Sixth Finch, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. He is a poetry editor for Bear Review. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Megan Weiler
Megan Weiler was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Konstanz, Germany. She returned to America after high school and studied English literature at Bryn Mawr College and Yale. She is the author of The Night Bell (Picador UK, 2001) and The Spring (JackLeg Press, 2022). Her stories and excerpts have appeared in Mississippi Review, Nimrod, and Common Knowledge. She lives with her husband in Nashville. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Scot West
Scot West is a playwright/actor back for his second time at Sewanee. He writes weird, ridiculous plays about working mothers, deadbeat dads, precocious children, and make-shift families living in degraded systems and would-be utopias. He has acted in over forty plays in Chicago/the Midwest and his plays and monologues have been performed in Iowa City and Minneapolis. He has an MFA in Acting from Ohio University and studied playwriting at Primary Stages. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Lori J. Williams
Lori J. Williams (she/her) is a Midwestern writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. She has published in The Los Angeles Review and The Hudson Review, where she won their 2021 Short Fiction Contest. She attended the 2023 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference as a fiction contributor. Lori holds a PhD in English from Indiana University and teaches at Parkland College, a community college in Champaign, Illinois. Find her at lorijwilliams.com. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Brandon Zang
Brandon Zang (he/him) is a Chinese Canadian playwright who uses worldbuilding to distance, deconstruct, and dissect the complex issues of today. His work has been developed at Chuang Stage, Lifeline Theatre, Live Arts, KCACTF, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Queen’s University, and the University of Chicago. His play Ah Wing and the Automaton Eagle was the winner of the 2023 Voaden Prize. Brandon is currently an MFA playwright at Boston University. (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

 

 

2023 Fellows and Scholars

2023 Fellows   Carissa Atallah (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Gabrielle Bates (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Joseph Cassara (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Katie Condon (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Marisa Crane (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Meg Day (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Richie Hofmann (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Lars Horn (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) K. Iver (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Erin Khar (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Caroline Kim (Kundiman Fellow) Peter Kispert (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Karin Lin-Greenberg (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Cassandra López (In-Na-Po Fellow) Sarah Mantell (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Ricky J Martinez (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Emi Nietfeld (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Joseph Osmundson (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Emilly Prado (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Manuel (Blake) Sanz (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Laura Spence-Ash (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Dior J. Stephens (Cave Canem Fellow) Erin Swan (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Liba Vaynberg (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) R.A. Villanueva (Wyatt Prunty Fellow) Laura Walter (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Diane Zinna (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

2023 Scholars   Skye Anicca (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Urvashi Bahuguna (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Taneum Bambrick (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Daniel Barnum (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Rebecca Bernard (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Rhoni Blankenhorn (Tennessee Williams Scholar) C. Adán Cabrera (Randall Kenan Scholar) Rucy Cui ( Tennessee Williams Scholar) Elena Dudum (Tennessee Williams Scholar) KaToya Ellis Fleming (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Catherine Epstein (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Tina Esper (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Danielle Frimer (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Sarah Frisch (Susannah McCorkle Scholar) Gursimrat Kaur (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Patricia Grace King (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Logan Klutse (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Monique Laban (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Tanner Akoni Laguatan (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Ae Hee Lee (Mark Strand Scholar) Jami Nakamura Lin (Ernest J. Gaines Scholar) Mimi Manyin (Peter Taylor Scholar) Jessie Ren Marshall (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Peyton Marshall (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Brooke McKinney (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Amy Neswald (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Dhari Noel (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Tierney Oberhammer (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Cindy Juyoung Ok (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Natasha Oladokun (Claudia Emerson Scholarship) L. Renée (Howard Nemerov Scholar) Jacob Marx Rice (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Colleen Rothman (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Matthew Siegel (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Sophie Stein (Stanley Elkin Scholar) Maud Streep (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Daniel Tam-Claiborne (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Steffan Triplett (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Kira Tucker (Donald Justice Scholar) Thalia Vacha (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Juan Fernando Villagomez (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Bernardo Wade (John Hollander Scholar) Isabella Waldron (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jemimah Wei (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Emmy Weissman (Tennessee Williams Scholar) April Yee (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

 

 

2022 Fellows and Scholars

2022 Fellows   George Abraham (RAWI Fellow) Kemi Alabi (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Zaina Arafat (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Matthew Baker (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Taneum Bambrick (Wyatt Prunty Fellow) Sara Borjas (CantoMundo Fellow) Caylin Capra-Thomas (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Joseph Cassara (John N. Wall Fellow) Tiana Clark (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Lilly Dancyger (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Adrienne Dawes (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Jaquira Díaz (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Sarah Domet (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Lisa Donovan (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Sarah Einspanier (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Olga El (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Michelle Hart (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Jeffrey J. Higa (Kundiman Fellow) Claire Luchette (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Kate Milliken (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Matt Ortile (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Dustin Pearson (Cave Canem Fellow) Brenda Peynado (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Polly Rosenwaike (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Wesley Rothman (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Father William Ralston Fellow) Erika T. Wurth (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Liqing Xu (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

2022 Scholars   David Aloi (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Bonnie Antosh (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Silvia Bonilla (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Marcelo Borromeo (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jennifer Hope Choi (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Dorsey Craft (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Laura Cresté (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Stevie Edwards (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Stacy Austin Egan (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Katherine Gaffney (Cheri Peters Scholar) Stefania Gomez (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jacqueline Graham (Mary Willard Scholar) Siân Griffiths (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Laura Grothaus (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Casey Guerin (Tennessee Williams Scholar) CJ Hauser (Tennessee Williams Scholar) W.J. Herbert (Howard Nemerov Scholar) Lars Horn (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Nancy Huang (Donald Justice Scholar) Cianon Jones (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Kanak Kapur (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Lisa Konoplisky (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jami Nakamura Lin (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Siqi Liu (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Samantha Marchant (Horton Foote Scholar)

Michael John McGoldrick (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Brooke McKinney (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jamila Minnicks (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Hassaan Mirza (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Tochukwu Okafor (Susannah McCorkle Scholar) Joanna Pearson (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jessi Phillips (Peter Taylor Scholar) JH Phrydas (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Ayaz Pirani (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jennifer Rumberger (Tennessee Williams Scholar) aureleo sans (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jacob Shores-Argüello (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Darina (Dasha) Sikmashvili (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Phillip Christian Smith (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Valerie A. Smith (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Pablo Piñero Stillmann (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Mika Taylor (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Asha Thanki (Randall Kenan Scholar) Josie Tolin (Barry Hannah Scholar) Steffan Triplett (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Analía Villagra (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Sarah Wang (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Victor Wei Ke Yang (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Brandon Young (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Qianze Zhang (Stanley Elkin Scholar)

 

 

2021 Fellows and Scholars

2021 Fellows   Brittany Ackerman Nkenna Akunna Abdul Ali Threa Almontaser Ayşe Papatya Bucak Chaya Bhuvaneswar K-Ming Chang Mario Chard Leila Chatti Cathy Linh Che Kirstin Chen Eduardo C. Corral Milo Cramer Mashuq Mushtaq Deen Nancy Wayson Dinan Tessa Fontaine Malcolm Friend Liz Harmer CJ Hauser Ambalila Hemsell Nicole Homer Yang Huang Allegra Hyde Brionne Janae Sandra Gail Lambert Xandria Phillips Kimberly Reyes Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn Jyotsna Sreenivasan Arhm Choi Wild Seayoung Yim

2021 Scholars   Maria Arreola Joy Baglio Mant Bares Craig Beaven Sindya Bhanoo Pritha Bhattacharyya Emilio Carrero Jung Hae Chae Vanessa Chan Teri Ellen Cross Davis Thomas Dai Brian Dang Quinn D. Eli Madison Fielder Mike Good Benjamin Gucciardi Sara Mae Henke Dionne Irving Bremyer Anna Jastrzembski Emily Kaplan Sarah Krohn Pingmei Lan Kat Lewis Zach Linge Joshua Martin Keya Mitra Valerie Muensterman Nancy Nguyen Wendy Oleson Kathleen Maris Paltrineri Colleen Kearney Rich

N.R. Robinson Shannon Robinson Benjamin Schaefer Vandana Sehrawat Serena Simpson Annette Sisson Mary South Laura Spence-Ash Angelique Stevens Jay Stull Kaj Tanaka Morgan Thomas Nicole VanderLinden David Joez Villaverde Pallavi Wakharkar Jessica Walker Lesley Wheeler Désirée Zamoranont

 

 

2019 Fellows and Scholars

2019 Fellows   Chad Abushanab D.M. Aderibigbe Xhenet Aliu Joseph J. Capista Molly Dektar Suzanne Feldman Matt Gallagher Natalie J. Graham Jason Grote Rachel Heng Crystal Hana Kim Edgar Kunz Matthew Lansburgh Lillian Li William Lychack Owen McLeod Leona Sevick Melissa Stein Jon Tribble Jesús I. Valles Heather Young

2019 Scholars   Johanna Aitchison Daphne Palasi Andreades Xavier Navarro Aquino Yu-Mei Balasingamchow Graham Barnhart Susan Donovan Bernhard Terry Blackhawk Brysen Boyd Conor Bracken Elijah Burrell Catherine Carberry Emily Chiles Raphael Dagold Armen Davoudian Hannah Dow Sydney Doyle Meghan Dunn Jaclyn Dwyer Afsheen Farhadi Shara Feit Megan Fernandes Anna Fox Victoria Alejandra Garayalde Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin Nick Fuller Googins

Miriam Bird Greenberg Sara Henning Jon Hickey C.H. Hooks Claire Jimenez Nathan Alling Long Kaia Angelica Lyons Louise Marburg Michael Mark Alex McElroy Rebecca McKanna Eric McMillan Maggie Millner Derek Otsuji Kate Reed Petty Annie Reid Jayme Ringleb Dominic Russ-Combs Gretchen Schrafft Felicity Sheehy Callie Siskel Adam Stumacher Mika Taylor Sean Towey James Winter Sandy Yang Hananah Zaheer Jason Zencka

 

 

2018 Fellows and Scholars

2018 Fellows   Clare Beams Venita Blackburn Will Boast Rita Bullwinkel Kai Carlson-Wee Lee Conell Marian Crotty Adam Giannelli Annie Hartnett Ladee Hubbard Caleb Johnson Diana Khoi Nguyen Charlotte Pence Shanthi Sekaran Cherene Sherrard Chelsea Sutton Melisa Tien Ryan Vine Kathleen Winter

2018 Scholars   Amir Adam Kathy Anderson Rebecca Aronson Rebekah Bergman Chaya Bhuvaneswar Ryan Black Rachel Bonds Stephanie K Brownell Brooke Bullman Edward Derby Laura Donnelly Kristin Fogdall J. Bruce Fuller Ally Glass-Katz Nathan Go Mora V. Harris Laura Hartenberger Michael Hawley Rob Howell Yang Huang Joshua Idaszak Mahak Jain Jess E. Jelsma Kelsey Ann Kerr

Charlotte Lang Quinn Lewis Phillip Scott Mandel Anna Marschalk-Burns Donovan McAbee Sarah McKinstry-Brown T. J. McLemore Jen Logan Meyer Carrie R. Moore Burt Myers Janice Northerns H. C. Palmer Daniel Paul Lynn Pedersen Daye Phillippo Michael Pontacoloni Casey Quinn Molly Reid Rob Roensch Lynn Schmeidler Leona Sevick Kari Shemwell William Pei Shih Jess Smith Annie Woodford Snowden Wright Joshua Young

 

 

2017 Fellows and Scholars

 

2017 Fellows Austin Allen (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Mia Alvar (Father William Ralston Fellow) Paulette Boudreaux (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Jericho Brown (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Dana Cann (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Jeffrey Condran (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Lisa Fay Coutley (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Eric Ekstrand (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) David Eye (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Julie Funderburk (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Sarah Green (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Rachel Hall (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Bryan Hurt (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) David Jacobi (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Lee Clay Johnson (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) EJ Levy (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Courtney Meaker (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Amy Rowland (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Michael Shewmaker (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Hasanthika Sirisena (John N. Wall Fellow) Anne Valente (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Chelsea Woodard (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

2017 Scholars Erin Adair-Hodges (Claudia Emerson Scholar) Bonnie Arning (Donald Justice Scholar) Taneum Bambrick (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Anna Laird Barto (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Judy Bauerlein (Romulus Linney Scholar) Caroline Beimford (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Annette C. Boehm (Howard Nemerov Scholar) Darcy Parker Bruce (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Emily Choate (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Lee Conell (Barry Hannah Scholar) Colby Cotton (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Lisa Cupolo (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Molia Dumbleton (Susannah McCorkle Scholar) Sanderia Faye (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Lauren Feldman (Horton Foote Scholar) Julia Franks (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Vishwas R. Gaitonde (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Amanda Galvan Huynh (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Kate Gaskin (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Donna Gordon (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Alina Grabowski (Tennessee Williams Scholar) CJ Hauser (Peter Taylor Scholar) Gabriel Houck (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Dionne Irving (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jordan Jacks (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Matt Kelsey (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Robert Lee Kendrick (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Emily Kiernan (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Ben Kingsley (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Karin Lin-Greenberg (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Andrew Mangan (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Dawn Manning (Mona Van Duyn Scholar) Gale Massey (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Kate McQuade (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jenny Molberg (Mark Strand Scholar) Jennifer Murvin (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Hannah Oberman-Breindel (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Erin Kate Ryan (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Blake Sanz (Borchardt Scholar) Eric Schlich (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Emily Schulten (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Kate Osana Simonian (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Marianna Staroselsky (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Nafissa Thompson-Spires (Stanley Elkin Scholar) Emily Tuszynska (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Kara van de Graaf (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Regina Walton (Anthony Hecht Scholar) Catherine Weingarten (Tennessee Williams Scholar) David Welch (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jim Whiteside (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Ruth Williams (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Alex Wilson (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Hilary Zaid (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

 

 

2016 Fellows and Scholars

2016 Fellows Marie-Helene Bertino (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Bill Beverly (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Edith Freni (Tennessee Williams Playwright-in-Residence) Charles Hughes (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Krista Knight (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Dave Madden (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) James Davis May (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Tyler Mills (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Maggie Mitchell (John N. Wall Fellow) Nathan Oates (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Patricia Park (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Elizabeth Poliner (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Nancy Reddy (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Corinna McClanahan Schroeder (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Will Schutt (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Lauren Goodwin Slaughter (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Justin Taylor (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Vu Tran (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Douglas Watson (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Jacob White (Father William Ralston Fellow)

2016 Scholars Brittany K. Allen (Borchardt Scholar) Nancy J. Allen (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Kathleen Balma (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Brett Beach (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Anna Lena Phillips Bell (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Britton Buttrill (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Joshua Butts (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Chris Cander (Peter Taylor Scholar) Stephanie Carpenter (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Matt Cashion (Barry Hannah Scholar) Tiana Clark (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Martin Cloutier (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Cátia Cunha (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Sarah Einspanier (Horton Foote Scholar) Susan Finch (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jonathan Fink (Mark Strand Scholar) Kitty Forbes (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Hazel Foster (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Luke Geddes (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Charity Gingerich (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Mikko Harvey (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Joseph Holt (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Abriana Jetté (Tennessee Williams Scholar) L. A. Johnson (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Janine Joseph (Howard Nemerov Scholar) Jennifer Wisner Kelly (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Meghan Kenny (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Edgar Kunz (Donald Justice Scholar)

Carrie La Seur (Susannah McCorkle Scholar) D.S. Magid (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Angela Mitchell (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Oindrila Mukherjee (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Maria Nazos (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Susannah Nevison (John Hollander Scholar) Ricardo Nuila (Stanley Elkin Scholar) Ryan Oliveira (Romulus Linney Scholar) Koye Oyedeji (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Pete Pazmino (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Charlotte Pence (Anthony Hecht Scholar) Deborah Phelps (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Edward Porter (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Saara Myrene Raappana (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jacques J. Rancourt (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Kristin Robertson (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Austin Smith (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Nathan Spoon (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Dario Sulzman (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Joselyn Takacs (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Carol Test (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Artress Bethany White (Mona Van Duyn Scholar) Nick White (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

 

 

2015 Fellows and Scholars

2015 Fellows Dan Albergotti (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Malachi Black (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Rachel Cantor (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Sheila Carter-Jones (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) George David Clark (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Brandon Courtney (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Rebecca Foust (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Jacqueline Goldfinger (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Jesse Goolsby (Walter E. Dakin Fellowship) Christian Kiefer (Father William Ralston Fellow) Gary Leising (William E. Dakin Fellow) Kelly Luce (John N. Wall Fellow) Monica McFawn (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Matt W. Miller (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Sarah Rose Nordgren (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Rajesh Parameswaran (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Antonio Ruiz-Camacho (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Natalie Serber (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Jason Skipper (Walter E. Dakin Fellowship) Matt Sumell (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Catherine Trieschmann (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

2015 Scholars Austin Allen (Howard Nemerov Scholar) Matthew Baker (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Cara Bayles (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Ash Bowen (Mona Van Duyn Scholar) William Brewer (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Rita Bullwinkel (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Alan Stewart Carl (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Anders Carlson-Wee (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Kai Carlson-Wee (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Garrard Conley (Barry Hannah Scholarship) Will Cordeiro (John Hollander Scholar) Meg Day (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Nicole Dennis-Benn (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Lindsey Drager (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jaclyn Dwyer (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Cody Ernst (Mark Strand Scholar) Nausheen Eusuf (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry (Tennessee Williams Scholar) J.P. Grasser (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Simon Han (Susannah McCorkle Scholar) Christine Hemp (Anthony Hecht Scholar) Andrea Jurjević (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Claire Kiechel (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jessica Langan-Peck (Georges and Anne Borchardt Scholar) Matthew Lansburgh (Tennessee Williams Scholar) O. A. Lindsey (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

Caleb Ludwick (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Cate Lycurgus (Tennessee Williams Scholar) L.S. McKee (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Kelly McQuain (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Brad Aaron Modlin (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Kate Mulley (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Tara Mae Mulroy (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Raul Palma (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Emily Pease (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Brenda Peynado (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Nathan Poole (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Julie Shavers (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Sujata Shekar (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Jennifer Sperry Steinorth (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Caitlin Saylor Stephens (Romulus Linney Scholar) Christina Stoddard (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Liv Stratman (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Shubha Sunder (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Cam Terwilliger (Stanley Elkin Scholar) Casey Thayer (Tennessee Williams Scholar) John Thornton Williams (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Bess Winter (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Deborah Yarchun (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Liz Ziemska (Tennessee Williams Scholar)

 

 

2014 Fellows and Scholars

2014 Fellows James Arthur (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Carlene Bauer (John N. Wall Fellow) Mark Jay Brewin, Jr. (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Karen Engelmann (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Pamela Erens (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Kerry James Evans (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Alan Grostephan (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Chloe Honum (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Alta Ifland (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Luis Jaramillo (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) TJ Jarrett (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Cheri Magid (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Rose McLarney (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) David James Poissant (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Mark Powell (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Anna Ross (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) James Scott (Father William Ralston Fellow) Diana Stahl (Walter E. Dakin Fellow) Stefanie Wortman's (Walter E. Dakin Fellow)

2014 Scholars Kilby Allen (Susannah McCorkle Scholar) Kirsten Andersen (Anthony Hecht Scholar) Corey Campbell (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Julialicia Case (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Diane Cook (Peter Taylor Scholar) Rebecca Evanhoe (Tennessee Williams Scholar) David Eye (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Raymond Fleischmann (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Amanda Goldblatt (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Graham Hillard (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Anna Claire Hodge (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Julie Iromuanya (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Cindy King (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Reese Okyong Kwon (Stanley Elkin Scholar) Christopher Linforth (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Michelle Menting (Donald Justice Scholar) Benjamin Myers (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Liz Maestri (Horton Foote Scholar) Helene Montagna (Romulus Linney Scholar)

Matt Morton (John Hollander Scholar) Emily Nemens (Barry Hannah Scholar) Clarinda Ross (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Courtney Sender (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Lydia Ship (Mona Van Duyn Scholarship) Gabriella R. Tallmadge (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Seth Brady Tucker (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Anne Valente (Georges and Anne Borchardt Scholar) Laura Van Prooyen (Tennessee Williams Scholar) Paula Whyman (Tennessee Williams Scholar) William Kelley Woolfitt (Howard Nemerov Scholar)