Visiting Writer: Zach Williams
Schedule
Wed, 28 Jan, 2026 at 03:30 pm
UTC-06:00Location
The Wittliff Collections | San Marcos, TX
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Visiting Writer: Therese Kayser Lindsey Literary SeriesEVENT DETAILS
Reading+ Q&A: January 28, 2026, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
The Wittliff Collections, Alkek Library, Texas State University
BIO
Zach Williams' debut short story collection, Beautiful Days, was a New Yorker Best Book of 2024, a finalist for the 2025 California Book Award for First Fiction, and longlisted for the 2025 PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. His story “Trial Run” was one of three that won The Paris Review a 2023 ASME Award for Fiction. Williams is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford, where he previously held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship.
Visit the department website for more info about the TKL literary series and TKL events:
https://www.english.txst.edu/about/tkl/tkl-author-bios.html
If you require accommodations due to a disability in order to participate, please contact (512)245-2163 at least 72 hours in advance of the event.
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