El Williams III is a St. Louis native. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, The Journal, River Styx, Vinyl and elsewhere. He has received fellowships and scholarships from Cave Canem, Community of Writers, Tin House and The Watering Hole. Currently he lives in Bloomington, where he is an MFA candidate in poetry at Indiana University and serves as the Creative Nonfiction Editor for the Indiana Review.
