Crystal Williams is the author of Kin and Lunatic (Michigan State University Press, 2000 & 2002). Williams’ poetry appears in journals and anthologies such as Callaloo, the Indiana Review, Ms. magazine, the Oregonian, 5AM, the Crab Orchard Review, Pleiades, Obsidian III, Ellipsis, WV, the Potomac Review, American Poetry: The Next Generation, Poetry Nation, Short Fuse, Sweet Jesus, and Beyond the Frontier, among others