David Wesley Williams is the author of the novels THE COLDWATER GIRL (Regal House Publishing, forthcoming 2027); COME AGAIN NO MORE (2025) and EVERYBODY KNOWS (2023), both from JackLeg Press; and LONG GONE DADDIES (John F. Blair, 2013). His short fiction has appeared in the Oxford American, Kenyon Review Online, The Common, The Pinch, and in Akashic Books’ MEMPHIS NOIR. He lives in Memphis.