Adele Elise Williams

Adele Elise Williams is the author of WAGER, selected by Patricia Smith for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Series and, with Dana Levin, is co-editor of Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master. Her writing can be found in The Southern Review, New Ohio Review, Poetry Northwest, The Georgia Review, Guernica, and elsewhere. Adele is an Assistant Editor at Texas Review Press and a Teaching Assistant Professor in the department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her critical and creative work explore how gender performances and working-class ecologies engage designations of high and low aesthetics, specifically within confessionally-innovative poetics.