Evan Morgan Williams

Evan Morgan Williams is the recipient of a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship. He is the author of four collections of stories: Thorn (BkMk Press, 2014, winner of the Chandra Prize), Canyons (2018), Stories of the New West (Main Street Rag Press, 2021), and The Divide (forthcoming, Cornerstone Press, 2026). Williams has published over 75 stories in literary journals including Kenyon Review, Witness, Zyzzyva, and Alaska Quarterly Review. He holds an MFA from the University of Montana (1991). A proud member of the Deaf/HOH community, he is retired after 29 years of teaching in a public school. Photo by Kenneth Dixon.