Katie Williams was born and raised in mid-Michigan. She earned her BA in English from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and her MFA in Creative Writing from the Michener Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Katie is the author of several novels including The Space Between Trees (2010, Chronicle Books), Absent (2013, Chronicle Books), Tell the Machine Goodnight (2018, Riverhead Books), and My Murder. Her writing has been featured in prestigious publications such as The Atlantic, Best American Fantasy, American Short Fiction, Prairie Schooner, and Subtropics.

She is currently an assistant professor in fiction writing at Emerson College in Boston.