Jerry Williams
Dr. Jerry Williams
Title
Associate Professor of Creative WritingDirector, Creative Writing
Department
English and World LiteraturesPhone
646-393-4118About
Dr. Williams received his Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University and his M.F.A. from the University of Arizona. His teaching interests include poetry, creative nonfiction, and contemporary literature. Carnegie Mellon University Press published his first collection of poems, Casino of the Sun, in 2003, and his second, Admission, in 2010. The Overlook Press published his anthology of breakup and divorce poetry, It’s Not You, It’s Me, in 2010. Recently, he has been working on a memoir called Hungry Angry Lonely Tired.
Degree(s)
B.A., Vermont College
M.F.A., University of Arizona
Ph.D., Oklahoma State University
Recent Work
Admission
Jerry Williams
Casino of the Sun
Jerry Williams
It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Poetry of Breakup
Jerry Williams, Editor