David Wesley Williams, a native Kentuckian now living in Memphis, Tennessee, is the author of the novel LONG GONE DADDIES. His short fiction has been published by the Oxford American, Kenyon Review Online, and such literary journals as The Common and The Pinch. His stories have also appeared in Akashic Books' Memphis Noir and the Harper Perennial collection Forty Stories. He plays the musical saw in a cowpunk band called Citizen Cain't. All but the last is true.
