Katie Williams is the author of the novel Tell the Machine Goodnight and the young adult novels Absent and The Space Between Trees. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Best American Fantasy, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, Subtropics, and elsewhere. She earned her M.F.A. from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, and she teaches writing at Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Katie has lived in Michigan, California, Texas, and Oregon.
Portrait by Athena Delene
Studios
Heyward
Katie Williams worked in the Heyward studio.
The
Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The
Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for
a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for
writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and
Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…