Evan Morgan Williams is the recipient of a 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship. He is the author of four collections of stories: Thorn (winner of the Chandra Prize at BkMk Press, 2014), Canyons (2018), Stories of the New West (Main Street Rag, 2021), and The Divide (Cornerstone Press, 2026). He has published over 75 stories in journals including Kenyon Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Witness, and Zyzzyva. He holds an MFA from the University of Montana (1991). He is retired after 29 years of teaching in a public school and has enjoyed a prior residency at Dorland Mountain.