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Zach Williams

Zach Williams is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University, where he previously held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. His story “Trial Run,” published in The Paris Review, was one of three winners of 2023 ASME Awards for Fiction. Originally from Wilmington, Delaware, he currently resides with his family in San Francisco. His first collection of short stories, Beautiful Days, was one of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2024.

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