D. Ann Williams is a literary agent with the Emerald City Literary Agency. She is a freelance editor with 10+ years of experience, a writer, and a writing coach. They have worked with all Big 5 publishers, medium-sized publishers, Amazon, We Need Diverse Books, and self-published/indie authors on a variety of adult, kidlit, and academic projects. As a writer they are a 2023 Tin House fellow, a 2021 Voodoonauts Fellow, and the winner of the 2021 Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Award. When not reading, writing, or editing, they spends their time baking, traveling, and dabbling in photography.