Christie Max Williams
Filed under: Authors
Christie Max Williams' debut poetry collection, The Wages of Love, won the William Meredith Poetry Prize. He also recently won the competition for and was appointed the inaugural Poet Laureate of Stonington, Connecticut. His poetry has been published in journals, magazines, and anthologies, and has won the Grolier Prize and Connecticut River Review Prize and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. He co-founded and for many years directed The Arts Café Mystic, which is in its 32nd year of presenting America's best poets and New England's finest musicians.
Williams is also an award-winning actor. He has worked as a leading actor on stage and screen in California, New York, and Connecticut. Recent roles have included Andre in The Father and John Barrymore in Barrymore at Drama Works Theatre; as The Stage Manager in Our Town and Scrooge in A Christmas Carol: The Musical at The Granite Theatre; as the poet Robert Frost in Frost Warnings at the La Grua Center; and as Father Christmas in the 50th anniversary production of The Westerly Chorus's Celebration of Twelfth Night. With Flock Theatre he recently performed the title role in a film version of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape.
He also worked as a fruit vendor in Paris, a salmon fisherman in Alaska, a consultant on Wall Street, a writer for the National Audubon Society, a wine grape harvester in Chateauneuf du Pape, and in leadership posts for nonprofit organizations in whose causes he believes. Though originally from California and then New York City, he now lives in Mystic, Connecticut, where he and his wife raised their daughter and son.
Website: https://www.christiemaxwilliams.com
Winning Entry: The Wages of Love
Contest Won: North Street Book Prize 2025, Honorable Mention
