Career
Williams wrote and directed the play King Lear with Sheep in 2015, [3] a re-telling of King Lear with sheep as its primary performers. [4]
Williams' debut novel, The Doloriad , was released in 2022 to mostly positive reviews. [5] A literary fiction, science fiction, horror blend, the novel tells the story of "The Matriarch" ruling her family in the wake of an unknown cataclysm. The novel received the Republic of Consciousness Prize (2023) [6] and her writing drew comparisons to writers such as William Faulkner and classical mythology. [7] In an interview with TriQuarterly, Williams's style was similarly compared to that of László Krasznahorkai. [1] The novel was shortlisted for the First Novelist Award [8] and named a Sunday Times [9] and Vulture Book of the Year. [10]
Also in 2022, she penned a personal essay in Granta detailing how a series of seizures in her temporal lobe impacted her writing. [11] The cause of this condition is not publicly known. Disability, its impacts and how it relates to characters worlds has been cited as a key aspect of Williams' work. [12]
Her second novel is forthcoming. The Vivisectors is described as a satirical campus novel [13] and is based on a previously published short-story in Astra magazine. [14] The novel was subject to an eight-way publisher auction. [13] [15]
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