Joel Williams
Joel Williams is a fifty-five-year-old Shoshone-Paiute Native American who was raised in Southern California. Incarcerated in a series of California maximum-security prisons for most of his adult life, he began reading extensively, then writing short stories. Those stories have appeared in various literary magazines, chapbooks, a collection in French translation titled Du sang dans les plumes (13E Note Editions, 2012), and in two e-books from Amazon Kindle, A House Burning and 13 Pieces! Granted parole after serving twenty-eight years, he is now pursuing a bachelor’s degree in agriculture.
