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Joshua Eric Williams (born January 17, 1983, Rome, Georgia, U.S.A.), disabled veteran who holds an MFA in poetry from Western Colorado University and works as an artist, nature writer, and poet, composing haikai as well as longer works. He has published The Distant Wild (2017), a chapbook of haiku, haibun, and poetry; a collection of haiga, Consoling Nature (2022); and two books of haiku: The Strangest Conversation (2019), which received an Honorable Mention in the 2020 HSA Merit Book Awards, and silent after (2024) from which the eponymous haiku was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won a THF Touchstone Award for Individual Poems in 2022. Williams lives in Carrollton, Georgia.
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