Education
University at Albany.
writer author Acquisitions Manager poet
University at Albany.
He is the author of six chapbooks and one full-length poetry collection, Controlled Hallucinations. He has edited three regional poetry collections, the poetry journal The Inflectionist Review, and the Walt Whitman 150 commemorative collection. Williams received a Bachelor of Arts from the University at Albany, State University of New York in 2003 and an Master of Arts in Creative Writing in 2005 from Rivier University.
After traveling abroad for three years, he moved to Portland, Oregon in 2009 and earned his Master of Arts in Book Publishing from Portland State University.
There he worked as Acquisitions Manager of Ooligan Press at Portland State University and was instrumental in the production of the Alive at the Center, the Pacific Poetry Project’s first volume poetry anthology. In 2012, Williams and fellow poets A. Molotkov and David Cooke became co-directors of the Walt Whitman 150 organization, a biannual celebration of Whitman’s legacy.
The following year, he and Molotkov started The Inflectionist Review, an international poetry and art magazine. His work has appeared in Third Coast, Nimrod International Journal, Inkwell, Cider Press Review, Bryant Literary Review, Cream City Review, The Chaffin Journal, The Evansville Review, RHINO, and various anthologies.
"Controlled Hallucinations by John Sibley Williams".
The Driftless Area Review. July 9, 2013. Molotkov, A. (2013). "Review: Controlled Hallucinations".
Elohi Gadugi Journal.
