Naomi J. Williams

Biography

Naomi J. Williams is the author of the novel Landfalls (FSG, 2015), long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her short stories and essays have appeared in LitHub, Electric Literature, The Brevity Blog, and the Sacramento Noir anthology. Honors for her work include a Pushcart Prize and residencies at Hedgebrook, Djerassi, Vermont Studio Center, and Willapa Bay AiR. Williams cofounded and codirects the literary nonprofit CapLit. 

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FICTION / Fall 2025

Snowlight

By Naomi J. Williams ,  Illustrations by Wesley Allsbrook

Not an uncommon winter tale. It goes different ways but always starts the same: Two men, friends since childhood, still young and strong, lose their way in a snowstorm that they believed they could out-ski. Night falls; they don’t return to...

Illustration by Wesley Allsbrook