Derek Williams
Instructor
About Derek
Derek JG Williams puts words into rows both long and short. He's a a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he won the Brian Rattigan and Mary Doyle Curran Creative Writing Scholarships. He's a Blacksmith House Emerging Writer. His poem, "These Kingdoms of Ours" was a finalist for RHINO Magazine's Editors Prize. Brenda Shaughnessy selected his poem “Ode to the Tongue” for inclusion in the Best New Poets anthology. Derek's poems are published or forthcoming in Forklift Ohio, DIAGRAM, Salamander, Plume, Best New Poets, New Ohio Review, Prairie Schooner, Storyscape Journal, and Pleiades, among others. He's currently a doctoral candidate in poetry at Ohio University, where he also teaches.