Wyatt Prunty
Wyatt Prunty is the author of nine collections of poetry. His critical work, “Fallen from the Symboled World”: Precedents for the New Formalism, is available from Oxford University Press. Editor of Sewanee Writers on Writing, he has also served as general editor of the Sewanee Writers’ Series and currently serves as editor of The Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction Series. He has taught at The Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, Louisiana State University, Washington and Lee University, and Sewanee, where he is the Ogden P. Carlton Professor of Literature. He is a recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Johns Hopkins, and Brown Foundation fellowships. He has served as Chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He is the Founding Director of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Tennessee Williams Fellowship program, and he is the Editor of the Johns Hopkins Poetry and Fiction Series.Awards
- 1986 Brown Foundation Fellowship
- 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2001 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Bellagio
- 2005 Fellowship of Southern Writers
- 2013 Chancellor, Fellowship of Southern Writers
Poetry collections
- Domestic of the Outer Banks, Inland Boat/Porch, 1980
- The Times Between, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982,
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- Balance as Belief, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989,
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- Since the Noon Mail Stopped Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997,
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- The Lover's Guide to Trapping, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009,
- Couldn’t Prove, Had to Promise, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014,
Books
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- Sewanee Writers on Writing, Louisiana State University Press, 2000,
