Selected Works
PERSONAL ESSAYS
On Faith’s Lips – Citron Review
Muscle Memory: A Case History – Longreads
West Point on Memorial Day: Race, one graduation photo, and the meaning of America – Salon
LISTENING
An Uprising and Its Making: Parkland, 1968
POETRY
Bathsheba Speaks, a Butcher Instructs – Ninth Letter
Things I will Never Say to Mr. DJ – The Common
60-Day Quarantine Psalm – Cosmonauts Ave
FILM
Octavius V. Catto: A Legacy for the 21st Century – History Making Productions
ANALYSIS and Op-Ed
A Brief History of Race & Contested Space in West Philly – Hidden City Philadelphia
At the Intersection Column Archive – National Catholic Reporter
‘The Bachelor’ Lawsuit: Silly or Spot-On? – EBONY
REPORTAGE
States of Incarceration Explores Roots of National Issue in Local Communities
BOOK REVIEWS
Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
IN PRINT
Me reading at Pa Gya! Literary Festival, Accra, Ghana, 2025. Photo by ~visly.
Mariam I. Williams
Writer. Dancer. Cultural Curator.
© 2026 by Mariam I. Williams
