Adele Elise Williams is the author of WAGER selected by Patricia Smith for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Series. She is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston where she serves as Nonfiction Editor for Gulf Coast. With Dana Levin, Adele is co-editor of Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master. Her work can be found or forthcoming in The Southern Review, The Los Angeles Review, Southern Humanities Review, New Ohio Review, Poetry Northwest, The Georgia Review, Guernica, The Florida Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.