Ian Williams completed his PhD in English at the University of Toronto and is currently a professor of American Literature at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts. Williams has held fellowships or residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Cave Canem, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Palazzo Rinaldi in Italy. He was also a scholar at the National Humanities Center Summer Institute for Literary Study. His book of poems, You Know Who You Are, was published by Wolsak and Wynn in 2010 and his book of short fiction, Not Anyone’s Anything, was published by Freehand Books in 2011.