Wyatt Prunty is director of the Sewanee Writers' Conference. His books include The Times Between (1982), What Women Know, What Men Believe (1986), Balance as Belief, (1989), The Run of the House (1993), and Since the Noon Mail Stopped (1997), all published by Johns Hopkins University Press. His most recent collection of poems, Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems, appeared in 2000. Oxford University Press published his critical work on contemporary poetry, "Fallen from the Symboled World":Precedents for the New Formalism (1990). He is general editor of the Sewanee Writers' Series, published by Sewanee in conjunction with the Overlook Press. He recently received a residency from The Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center and a fellowship from The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.  

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