CONSTANT LAVAL WILLIAMS is a Los Angeles-born poet and former resident of Paris, France, where his writing first came of age. Although he considers himself a poet first and foremost, he is also a musician (Post-Punk/Darkwave solo project Casket Cassette), photographer, experimental filmmaker and polymathic creative. He studied creative writing at the American University of Paris as well as the University of Southern California, where he received the Beau J. Boudreaux Poetry Award. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Lana Turner, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Sixth Finch, DIAGRAM, RHINO, Painted Bride Quarterly, Sugar House Review, Bellvue Literary Review, Hotel Amerika, The American Journal of Poetry and december, among others. He volunteers as a reader at Ploughshares and graduated with MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in May of 2024.