David Williams is the author of Traveling Mercies (Alice James Books, 1993). His work has appeared in dozens of magazines, including The Atlantic, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Image, Kenyon Review, Many Mountains Moving, Michigan Quarterly, Mizna, Poetry East, Orion, Sonora Review, and Sierra, as well as several anthologies, including Poetry from the Amicus Journal (Natural Resources Defense Council), Post-Gibran: New Arab-American Writing (Jusoor/Syracuse University Press). Stories from Where We live (Milkweed Editions), Cultural Activisms (SUNY), and Dinarzad’s Children: Contemporary Arab-American Fiction (University of Arkansas, forthcoming). His writing is discussed at length in Memory and Cultural Politics: New American Ethnic Literatures (Northeastern University Press). His manuscript, Far Sides of the Only World, was runner-up in Carolina Wren Press’s 2003 Poetry Chapbook Contest.