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Novelist and screenwriter William Scott Williams holds master’s degrees from Harvard Divinity School, UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, and The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He has studied with Marvin Saltzman, Christopher Tilghman, Kevin McIlvoy, John Robert Lennon, Joanna Rose, Peter Order, Tom Spanbauer, David Hayes and many others. Williams’ work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Meridian: The Semi-Annual from the University of Virginia, The Massachusetts Review, Poydras Review, The Greensboro Review, and The Drake. Williams’ first screenplay, Cross Country, was a semi-finalist at the 2006 Austin Film Festival. His novel, The Familiar Ferry, was a finalist for the 2021 Black Lawrence Big Moose Prize.