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Pritha Bhattacharyya

Darcy headshotPritha Bhattacharyya is a Bengali American writer. She is a fiction PhD candidate and Inprint C. Glenn Cambor Fellow in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston. She received her MFA from Boston University. She’s received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Willapa Bay AiR, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Napa Valley Writers' Conference, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Inprint Houston, and elsewhere. Her work appears in The Southern Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere.

Norris Eppes

sewanee pic afsheenNorris Eppes has published fiction and essays in HobartX-R-A-Y, the Four Way ReviewHASHThe Surfer’s JournalBeachGritBitter SouthernerNewsweek, and elsewhere. He holds an M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Tennessee and was the 2014-15 Aiken Taylor Editorial Fellow at the Sewanee Reviewwww.norriseppes.com.

Afsheen Farhadi

sewanee pic afsheenAfsheen Farhadi's short fiction and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Witness, The Rumpus, The Millions, Redivider, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Florida Review, and elsewhere. He is currently a Provost Graduate Fellow in the creative writing PhD program at the University of Cincinnati.

Jonathan Bohr Heinen

Jonathan Bohr HeinenJonathan Bohr Heinen's writing has appeared in Florida Review, Cimarron Review, Arroyo, Pilgrimage, The Boiler, Tusculum Review, The McNeese Review, and elsewhere, and has received special mention from the Pushcart Prize. He teaches writing and publishing courses at the College of Charleston, where he is the managing editor for Crazyhorse.

Sakinah Hofler

Sakinah_Hofler_Author_Photo2Sakinah Hofler’s work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Mid-American Review, Bettering American Poetry, and elsewhere. She has won the Manchester Fiction Prize and the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award. A former quality and chemical engineer for the United States Department of Defense, she’s currently a PhD student and an Alfred C. Yates Fellow at the University of Cincinnati.

Anessa Ibrahim

Anessa IbrahimAnessa Ibrahim is a fiction writer from Los Angeles. She holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota, is a two-time recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant, and is currently a PhD candidate and Provost Fellow at the University of Cincinnati. Her work has appeared in American Short Fiction.

Kate Jayroe

Kate JayroeKate Jayroe is a writer in and from Little Mountain, South Carolina. Kate's chapbook, Parts (Dorsa Brevia, 2019), was a top ten seller in Powell's Books Small Press in 2019. Work by Kate is forthcoming and appears in X-R-A-Y, Hayden's Ferry ReviewThe FanzineJoylandHobartVIDA's Report from the Field, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Juked, and more. katejayroe.com

Cianon Jones

Poole PhotoCianon Jones is a writer, creator, and performer. Jones recently wrote with the OMG! Studios Philly’s writers’ room from concept to creation of TV Guide New Play Festival: Stories for the Afrofuturist, a multi-play saga. Produced plays include Liar Upon the Starship Limpidius (Equinox New Play Festival, 2020) and Condensed Milk (Brown Girls Squared, 2019). This fall Cianon will be joining the University of Iowa’s Playwrights Workshop MFA.

Shelby Knauss

Shelby Knauss graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South in 2018 and is the 2018-2019 Post-Baccalaureate Fellow for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

Alyssa Konermann

konermann_headshot-3086Alyssa Konermann is a former magazine editor and journalist who is pursuing a graduate degree in fiction at the University of Cincinnati. She’s won multiple awards for her journalism and was the recipient of a 2019 Taft Research Center Summer Fellowship to work on her narrative nonfiction book-in-progress. In her non-writing life, she works as a Pilates instructor and photographer.

Ananda Lima

Ananda LimaAnanda Lima is a poet, fiction writer, and translator, the author of Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press), winner of the Hudson Prize, and four chapbooks: Vigil, Tropicália, winner of the Newfound Prose Prize, Amblyopia, and Translation. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, The Common, Witness, and elsewhere. She was awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers, and an early version of CRAFT was named a finalist for the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA from Rutgers University, Newark. Originally from Brasilia, Brazil, she lives in Chicago. Her first collection of fiction, CRAFT, is forthcoming from Tor.

Nathaniel Nelson

Nathaniel NelsonNathaniel Nelson is a poet from Chattanooga, Tennessee, and a recent graduate of the MFA program at the University of Oregon. They were a former Tennessee Williams Baccalaureate Fellow at the Sewanee Writers' Conference and their poems have appeared in The Southern Review and Birmingham Poetry Review.

Phillip Christian Smith

Poole PhotoPhillip Christian Smith is a Fire This Time Festival Playwright, a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee (current staff), Playwrights Realm and Lambda Literary Fellow, Winter Playwrights Retreater. O’Neill, PlayPenn, Trustus, and BAPF Finalist. Co-Literary Director of Exquisite Corpse Company.  He teaches acting at Pace University and playwriting at Hunter College.  BFA UNM, MFA Yale School of Drama. MFA Hunter College. He is currently working on a Roe Green Commission with The Cleveland Playhouse. www.phillipchristiansmith.com

Bea Troxel

Bea TroxelBea Troxel graduated from the University of the South in 2015. She interned for and attended the Sewanee Writers' Conference the summer after graduating. Bea lives in Nashville where she is pursuing music. She released her debut album, The Way That It Feels, in the Fall of 2017 and has spent her spare time promoting and touring with that album.

Briana Wheeler

Dan Groves PhotoBriana Wheeler graduated from The University of the South: Sewanee in 2020 and is the 2021 Tennessee Williams Post-Baccalaureate Fellow for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Additionally, she is the poetry editor for Ample Remains, an online literary journal she helped found in late 2020.

Chelsea Whitton

Chelsea__PhotoChelsea Whitton is a PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of Bear Trap (Dancing Girl Press, 2018). Her poetry and prose have appeared in an array of print and online publications, including Copper Nickel, Cream City Review, Poetry Ireland, The Atlanta Review, and Forklift-Ohio. She is also the recipient of the 2018 Sandy Crimmins National Poetry Prize. Raised in North Carolina, she spent her twenties in New York, and now lives in Cincinnati with her husband, Matthew, and their cats, Puck and Merle.