Ian Williams is the author of seven books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. His works have won or been shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, the Raymound Souster Award and more. Williams completed his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, where he now teaches as a tenured full professor of English, director of the Creative Writing program and academic advisor for the Massey College William Southam Journalism Fellowship.

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