Judy Gervais Williams is reimagining herself after a career as a Writing Center Director & college English instructor. Her memoir-in-progress examines the intergenerational nature of trauma; her fiction explores connection/lack of connection among humans; & her poetry celebrates the natural world. Judy is the recipient of the Steve Grady Prize for both fiction & journalism and a two-time recipient of a Martin Dibner Fellowship. She has attended residencies at Monson Arts & Hewnoaks.
Selected work
Happily Ever After
2001
Spring Planting
1996
Happily Ever After
Out of the Cradle Magazine, 1997
Family Laundry
Stolen Island Review, 1997
Sunday Dinner
Stolen Island Review, 1998
Family Laundry
Crosscut Literary Magazine, 2002
The Sea Urchin
Crosscut Literary Magazine, 2003
Slice By Slice
The Waldo Independent, 2006
Sacred Sex
Stolen Island Review, 2007
Let Me Wonder
Stolen Island Review, 2008
On Searching for Sand Dollars
Off the Coast, 2008
The Photographs in My Dreams
Stolen Island Review, 2009
Chance Encounter
Cardinal Flower Journal: Reflections of Northern New England, 2015
The Common Grackle
Cardinal Flower Journal: Reflections of Northern New England, 2015
Projects
Print Publication · 1998-present
A Binding Promise
A Binding Promise is a collection of linked short stories on the theme of human connections/lack of connections. It is a work in progress.
Other · 2023-present
Thorns in the Spirit: A Memoir of Intergenerational Trauma
A teenager is sexually exploited. Years later, her daughter is a victim of incest. How one event impacts the other is the key question of this memoir.