Naomi Williams

2010 Alumna

Cottage: Fir

BIO: Naomi J. Williams is the author of the novel Landfalls, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in many places, including LitHub, Bourbon Penn, One Story, A Public Space, Zoetrope: All-Story, The Rumpus, and the forthcoming Sacramento Noir anthology. She’s been honored with a Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories honorable mention, Sustainable Arts Foundation fellowship, and residencies at Hedgebrook, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Willapa Bay AiR, and Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She has taught creative writing at UC Davis, Sacramento City College, Davis Arts Center, Saint Mary's College, and the low-residency MFA program at Ashland University in Ohio. A biracial Japanese-American, she was born and partly raised in Japan and makes her home today in Sacramento, California.