Adele Elise Williams is the author of WAGER selected by Patricia Smith for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Series and, with Dana Levin, is co-editor of Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master. Recent work is published or forthcoming in Electric Lit, Fence, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Mississippi Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Adele has received fellowships from Ucross, VCCA, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, and Inprint. A finalist for the 2022 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, Adele is an Assistant Editor at Conjunctions and Texas Review Press as well as a Professor of English and Creative Writing at UNC-Chapel Hill.