About

Thalia Williamson is an essayist, fiction writer, and poet. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Joyland Magazine, The Audacity, Longreads, Black Warrior Review, and The Masters Review.

She was a finalist for the 2023 BRINK Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing and the 2023 CRAFT Flash Prose Prize. She was a semifinalist for the 2022 Sewanee Review Fiction Contest. Her work has received support from the Tin House Scholarship for Trans Writers, the Sewanee Tennessee Williams Scholarship, the Marius DeBrabant Fund, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

She was born in London and now lives in Los Angeles, where she is completing a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside and a BA in Philosophy from King's College London.

Contact

thaliaw@usc.edu