Gregory D. Williams, M.D. is the winner of Georgia College's 2008 Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction. His fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in Blue Mesa Review, Elysian Fields, American Fiction, Bosque, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. A graduate of Stanford University and the University of Arizona Medical School, he grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Williams' specialty was anesthesiology, and he was the son of an anesthesiologist. The author passed away in 2020.