Naomi Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG), long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the forthcoming story collection Strange Trouble (Melville House). Her short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous places, including One Story, Electric Literature, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Rumpus, and LitHub. Today she lives in Sacramento, California, and teaches with the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University in Ohio.
Naomi Williams is the author of Landfalls (FSG), long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the forthcoming story collection Strange Trouble (Melville House). Her short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous places, including One Story, Electric Literature, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Rumpus, and LitHub. A five-time Pushcart nominee and one-time winner, Naomi has been awarded residencies at Hedgebrook, Djerassi, Willapa Bay AiR, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. A biracial Japanese-American, she was born in Japan and spoke only Japanese until she was six years old. Today she lives in Sacramento, California, and teaches with the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University in Ohio.
