About

 

            Lori J. Williams was born in southern Illinois and grew up in the central part of the state.  She graduated from Kentucky Wesleyan College and went on to earn an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from Indiana University.  Lori taught composition, literature, and humanities courses for 32 years at Parkland College, a community college in Champaign, IL.  She has published in FOLIO Literary Journal, The Los Angeles Review and The Hudson Review, where she won their 2021 Short Fiction Contest. Lori attended the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference as a fiction contributor.  The Sewanee Writers’ Conference awarded her a Tennessee Williams scholarship in fiction.  

She loves books, bandanas, Ebertfest, late bloomers, Lyle Lovett, farmers’ markets, bibimbap, art museums, the lasso of truth, and prairie horizons.

Photo credit: Della Perrone / Parkland College