Works

• “Mother of the Groom” was awarded second prize in the 2026 Nimrod Literary Awards, The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, judged by Adam Johnson. Publication of the story is forthcoming from Nimrod.

• “Turncoat” appeared in FOLIO Literary Journal, 2026: Vol. 41

https://www.folioliteraryjournal.com/lori-williams-turncoat

• “Chickens” appeared online in The Los Angeles Review in August, 2023:

Chickens by Lori J. Williams

• “Grain,” which appeared in the Autumn 2021 issue of The Hudson Review, was awarded first prize in The Hudson Review’s 2021 Short Fiction Contest:
  https://hudsonreview.com/2021/10/grain/#.YXczHxxOmUk

Works in progress include a novel in stories, “Ephesus, Illinois.”