A writer, editor, and educator from a variety of Southern places, Adele Elise Williams is a Teaching Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill and is the author of WAGER, selected by Patricia Smith for the 2024 Miller Williams Poetry Series. Adele holds a doctorate in Literature and Creative writing from the University of Houston where she was awarded fellowships from Inprint and the Cynthia Mitchell Woods Center for Arts.

Adele’s critical and creative work explore how gender performances and working-class ecologies engage designations of “high” and “low” art, specifically within confessionally-innovative poetics. As a wild and working-class woman, Adele is wooed by low-brow and no-class aesthetics. 

Adele loves poems and loves you.