Adele Elise Williams

Poet

Author's Bio

Adele Elise Williams is the author of the poetry collections Sacrosanct and Wager. Williams is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Missouri State Univeristy where she teaches in the MFA program. She holds a doctorate in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston and an MFA from Virginia Tech. With Dana Levin, Adele co-edited a recent volume of the Unsung Masters Series on poet Bert Meyers. Her work can be found in ONLY POEMS, Copper Nickel, The Sun, New Ohio Review, Poetry Northwest, The Georgia Review, Guernica, The Florida Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Indiana Review and elsewhere. Adele is an Editor at Conjunctions and the Nonfiction Editor and Moon City Review. 

 

Publications & Prizes

Books: ,
Wager (University of Arkansas Press, 2024)
Prizes won: 

Academy of American Poets Prize (2023)

 Inprint Marion Barthelme Prize in Creative Writing  (2023)

Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize for Poetry (2022)

Cynthia Mitchell Woods Center for Arts Interdisciplinary Fellow (2023-2024)

Inprint Nina and Michael Zilkha Fellow (2020-2025)

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
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Last update: Oct 31, 2026