John Sibley Williams

John Sibley Williams is the author of eight poetry collections, including Scale Model of a Country at Dawn (Cider Press Review Poetry Award), The Drowning House (Elixir Press Poetry Award), As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, University of Nebraska Press), and Summon (JuxtaProse Chapbook Prize). A thirty-five-time Pushcart nominee, John is the winner of numerous awards, including the Wabash Prize for Poetry, Philip Booth Award, Phyllis Smart-Young Prize, and Laux/Millar Prize. He serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and founder of the Caesura Poetry Workshop series. He works as a poetry coach, editor, and literary agent independently and for organizations such as Indigo: Editing, Design, and More and Kelson Books, and he teaches for a variety of organizations such as Writing Salon, Writers.com, and WritingWorkshops.com. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rivier University and an MA in Book Publishing from Portland State University. Learn more about John’s work here.