Kalela Williams received her B.A. in English from the University of Mary Washington and her M.F.A. from Goddard College. Her work has appeared in Quay: A Journal of the Literary Arts, The Broome Review, Lone Star Legacy, Wild Goose Poetry Review, and Diverse Voices Quarterly; and is forthcoming in Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women. From 2009–2012, she was Assistant Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University, where she coordinated programs that promoted African American poetry, including a conference featuring Affrilachian writers. She is currently the program coordinator of One Book, One Philadelphia, a citywide reading project sponsored by the Free Library of Philadelphia with the goal of promoting literacy, library usage, and building community through the reading of a single book.