 While there, she got to know several important writers and critics who lectured or taught in the program, among them Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Robie Macauley, Austin Warren and Andrew Lytle.Lytle, for many years editor of the "Sewanee Review", was one of the earliest admirers of her fiction.He later published several of her stories in the "Sewanee Review", as well as critical essays on her work.