Paige Williams

Paige Williams, a staff writer at The New Yorker, worked on The Dinosaur Artist, a narrative nonfiction book about dinosaur smuggling, paleontology, geopolitics, and the global obsession with natural history. The book, a 2019 finalist for the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters's prize in nonfiction, was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2018 by the New York Times, and a best book of the year by The Paris Review, Publisher's Weekly, Smithsonian magazine, and NPR’s “Science Friday.” Case Western Reserve University named The Dinosaur Artist its common read for the 2019-20 academic year. Williams is a winner of the National Magazine Award for feature writing, and was later a finalist or shared the nomination in two other categories. Her work has been included in numerous anthologies, including The Best American Magazine Writing and The Best American Crime Writing. Williams is the Newsday/Laventhol Visiting Associate Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia University and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.