Dmitri Williams is a fantasy and slipstream author whose work explores deserts, memory, and the uncanny rules that bind everyday lives. Raised along the high mesas of northern New Mexico, he studied folklore and cartography at a small liberal arts college before working as a surveyor on rail projects—an experience that seeded his fascination with maps that don't stay put.
He is the author of the novella collection Thornbright & Other Stories and the novels The Gloaming Orchard and The Drowned Observatory. His short fiction has appeared in regional zines and small-press anthologies, earning the Saguaro Prize for emerging voices and a Copper Lantern Award for best desert myth retelling. Dmitri Williams lives in Portland, Oregon, where he keeps an unruly herb garden, trades recipes for campfire coffee, and hikes whenever it rains so he can smell the creosote on the wind.
