Derek JG Williams (he/him) is an American writer and the author of Reading Water, winner of the 2023 Lightscatter Press Prize, and Poetry Is a Disease (Greying Ghost Press, 2022). His poems and prose are published in Pleiades, The Writer’s Chronicle, Salamander, Best New Poets, Prairie Schooner, DIAGRAM, and Bear Review, among others. His writing has also been featured on Boston’s MBTA trains as a part of the city’s Poetry on the T program. He earned a doctorate in English and creative writing from Ohio University and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He lives in Zurich with his family.