Don Williams is a widely published columnist, short story writer, and the founding editor and publisher of New Millennium Writings, an annual literary anthology.

His awards include a National Endowment for the Humanities Michigan Journalism Fellowship, a Golden Presscard Award, the Malcolm Law Journalism Prize (Tennessee's Top Associated Press Managing Editors Award), Five Writer of the Month Awards in the Scripps Howard Chain, twice Runner-up for Writer of the Year, and others.

He is finishing a novel, with the working title, "Red State Blues," set in his native Tennessee and Iraq. He is also the author of “Heroes, Sheroes and Zeroes, the Best Writings About People by Don Williams” (New Millennium Writings, 2005, sold out, with another book of journalism to follow soon, untitled as yet.).

He likes to run, hike, bike, meditate and read. He lives with his wife, Jeanne, a special education teacher who can outrun him, three grown children who come and go, and assorted critters.

Heroes include the Beatles, the late Carl Sagan, Ken Kesey, Sam Houston, Thomas Jefferson, assorted prophets and poets and, more recently, Dixie Chicks, Greg Palast, Seymour Hersh, Neil Young, Al Gore, the late Molly Ivins, and all those idealists who go to peace rallies and write letters to editors.

For information, email him at donwilliams7@charter.net, or visit the NMW website at www.NewMillenniumWritings.com. His new blog is set to begin in mid-April.

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