About me

Em Williamson is a trans-nonbinary writer who lives in Chicago. Their fiction has appeared in journals like Puerto del Sol, New Delta Review, storySouth, among numerous others, and their scholarship appears in the journal Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Their work has received support from Ragdale, Tin House, and has been nominated for an AWP Intro Award and an Illinois Arts Council Award. Their short story collection Palace was a finalist for Sundress Publications’ 2024 Prose Contest and the 2025 Howling Bird Press Prize. They are a final-year PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Illinois Chicago.