Jerry Williams

Title

Associate Professor of Creative Writing
Director, Creative Writing

Department

Writing, Literature, and Language

Email

jwilliams1@mmm.edu

Phone

646-393-4118

About

Dr. Williams received his Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University and his M.F.A. from the University of Arizona.  His teaching interests include poetry, creative nonfiction, and contemporary literature. Carnegie Mellon University Press published his first collection of poems, Casino of the Sun, in 2003, and his second, Admission, in 2010. The Overlook Press published his anthology of breakup and divorce poetry, It’s Not You, It’s Me, in 2010. Recently, he has been working on a memoir called Hungry Angry Lonely Tired.

Degree(s)

B.A., Vermont College
M.F.A., University of Arizona
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University

Recent Work

Admission
Jerry Williams

Casino of the Sun
Jerry Williams

It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Poetry of Breakup
Jerry Williams, Editor

Location

Nugent Hall, Room 151B