Derek JG Williams is an American writer and the author of the nonfiction chapbook, Poetry Is a Disease (Greying Ghost, 2022). He holds a doctorate in English and Creative Writing from Ohio University, and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he won the Brian Rattigan and Mary Doyle Curran Creative Scholarships.

Williams has been selected as a Visiting Teaching Artist at the Poetry Foundation. He is a Blacksmith House Emerging Writer. His poem, "These Kingdoms of Ours" was a finalist for RHINO Magazine's Editors Prize. Brenda Shaughnessy selected his poem "Ode to the Tongue" for inclusion in the Best New Poets anthology. His writing has appeared on Boston's MBTA trains as a part of the city's Poetry on the T program, while his poems and prose are published in Pleiades, The Writer's Chronicle, Banshee, Poet Lore, Salamander, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.

Williams teaches writing courses online, and also works with individual clients to help them establish and reach their creative goals. He is an academic language editor and technical writer who has worked with scholars and researchers at numerous institutions and universities. He currently lives in Switzerland with his family.
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Derek JG Williams is an American writer. He is the author of Poetry Is a Disease (Greying Ghost, 2022). His poems and prose are published in Pleiades, The Writer's Chronicle, Plume, Banshee, Salamander, Best New Poets, and Prairie Schooner, among others. He holds a doctorate in English and Creative Writing from Ohio University, and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He lives near Zurich with his family. Reading Water is his debut poetry collection.