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Naomi J. Williams

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Naomi J. Williams is the author of Landfalls, a fictionalized account of the 18th-century Lapérouse expedition. Her short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Zoetrope, A Public Space, One Story, Ninth Letter, and The Southern Review. A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and one-time winner as well as Best American Short Stories honorable mention recipient, Naomi has an undergraduate degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton and an MA in Creative Writing from UC Davis. Naomi lives in northern California with her family and is working on her second novel, a fictionalized retelling of the life of Japanese poet Yosano Akiko.

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Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy

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Classical Japanese: A Grammar

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Having It All in the Belle Epoque: How French Women's Magazines Invented the Modern Woman

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“If only men could do this - shed from their bodies and their selves the things that would destroy them.”
― Naomi J. Williams, Landfalls

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“I used to think that people suffered more over sudden, unexpected deaths than over long, protracted ones, but I no longer think so. Grief always lands heavily.”
― Naomi J. Williams, Landfalls: A Novel

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“Who are we to take possession of this place?" he said. "These people have lived here for hundreds of years. Do they have no rights, simply because we have muskets?”
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