Naomi J. Williams Biography, Books, and Similar Authors

Naomi J. Williams Biography

Naomi J. Williams was born in Japan and spoke no English until she was six years old. She has an MA in Creative Writing from UC Davis, and her short fiction has appeared in journals such as A Public Space, One Story, The Southern Review, and The Gettysburg Review. In 2009, she received a Pushcart Prize and a Best American Honorable Mention.

Her debut novel, Landfalls, a fictionalized account of the 18th-century Lapérouse expedition, was released in August of 2015.

Naomi lives with her family in Davis, California, where she's started work on her second book, a novel about the early 20th-century Japanese poet Yosano Akiko.

Naomi J. Williams's website

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