Bio
Zach Williams' debut short story collection, Beautiful Days, was published by Doubleday in 2024. Beautiful Days was longlisted for the 2025 PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection and is a finalist for the 2025 California Book Award for First Fiction. Williams' work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. His story “Trial Run” was one of three that won The Paris Review a 2023 ASME Award for Fiction. Williams is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford, where he previously held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship.
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Creative Writing
2024-25 Courses
- Creative Expression in Writing
ENGLISH 9CE (Win, Spr) - Creative Nonfiction
ENGLISH 91 (Spr) - Fiction Writing
ENGLISH 90 (Win) - Intermediate Fiction Writing
ENGLISH 190 (Aut) -
Independent Studies (1)
- Individual Work
ENGLISH 198 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Individual Work
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Creative Nonfiction
ENGLISH 91 (Spr) - Fiction Writing
ENGLISH 90 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Quantum Narratives
ENGLISH 190QN (Win)
2022-23 Courses
- Levinthal Tutorial in Fiction
ENGLISH 190L (Win)
2021-22 Courses
- Levinthal Tutorial in Fiction
ENGLISH 190L (Win)
- Creative Nonfiction
All Publications
- Beautiful Days Doubleday. 2024
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Trial Run
PARIS REVIEW
2022: 105-118
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