Ismée Williams is the award-winning author of Water in May (2017) and This Train Is Being Held (2020), a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection and winner of the ILBA Gold Medal for best YA Romance, published by Amulet books. Ismée also co-edited the YA anthology, Boundless: Twenty Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities (2023), published by Inkyard. She has been an invited speaker at The Virginia Festival of the Book, The Miami Book Fair, The NYC Teen Author Festival, The Southern Kentucky Book Festival, and The Bronx Book Festival among others. Ismée is a co-founder of the Latinx Kidlit Book Festival as well as a pediatric cardiologist in New York City where she lives with her family. She is the daughter of a Cuban immigrant and grew up listening to her abuelo's bedtime stories.
