Dera R. Williams: Ten-Minute Live Reading

Part of a weekly series of ten minute readings hosted by great weather for MEDIA.

May's guest host and curator is great weather for MEDIA prose editor Lyndsey Ellis.

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Dera R. Williams is an Oakland author who writes in the fiction, nonfiction, and memoir genres. As a family historian and archivist, Dera researches and writes her family history and mentors others in their research. She is an editorial mentor to middle-school students and assists in publishing their writing. She has contributed to over two dozen anthologies and journals and her most current contribution is a magic realism story in a forthcoming anthology in fall 2022. She has compiled a collection of childhood memories, In My Backyard: Stories of Growing Up in Oakland of which she has published a preview. Her novella, Against All Odds, will be published in spring 2022 and is completing a Great Migration novel. She is a member of AfroSurreal Writers Workshop. Exploring the relationship of myth and honoring oral and family history, she honors the voices of her ancestors in her storytelling.

Lyndsey Ellis is a fiction writer and essayist. Her debut novel, Bone Broth (Hidden Timber Books), was published in spring 2021.