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Missouri Williams

Missouri Williams is a novelist, playwright and editor

Williams is the author of The Doloriad, which won the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her work has also appeared in The Nation, The Baffler, The Believer, Granta and The Drift. Williams was born in London and currently lives in Prague.  

The Vivisectors was longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026. 

All nominated books

The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams
Coursing with icy suspense and rendered with violent precision, The Vivisectors is a new kind of love story for a broken era