Travis Eisenbise is the Co-Director of Programs and Finance at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His writing has appeared in Gulf Coast, Joyland, Masters Review Anthology X, Denver Quarterly, storySouth, and The Cancer Book: 101 Stories of Courage, Support and Love. Prior to Sewanee, Travis spent 16 years in Brooklyn, NY raising funds and support for national reproductive health and environmental organizations. His writing has been supported by Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Tin House, where he was a Break Scholar. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is originally from Soddy-Daisy, TN.


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Adam Leeds Latham (he/him) is the Co-Director of Marketing, Admission, and Participants for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His fiction has appeared in Ecotone, The Cincinnati Review, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. He is a recipient of Blackbird's Rebecca Mitchell Tarumoto Short Fiction Prize and a co-editor of As We Were Saying: Sewanee Writers on Writing. He has a Master’s in Publishing from NYU and was formerly Director of Development for Folio Literary Management. He is currently working on a novel.


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Maddie Loud (she/her) is the 2026–27 Tennessee Williams Post-Baccalaureate Fellow for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her fiction has been named a finalist in contests held by Hayden’s Ferry Review and Sonora Review. She graduated from the University of the South in 2026 with a B.S. in Psychology and the Tennessee Williams Award for Creative Writing in Fiction. As a Sewanee undergrad, she also majored in Creative Writing, received a Freeman Asia scholarship to complete a travel-writing internship in Japan, and spent two years interning for SWING Magazine, where she remains a submissions reader.