David Wesley Williams, a native Kentuckian now living in Memphis, Tennessee, is the author of the novels The Coldwater Girl (Regal House Publishing, forthcoming May 2027); Come Again No More (2025) and Everybody Knows (2023) (both from JackLeg Press); and Long Gone Daddies (John F. Blair, Publisher, 2013). His fiction has appeared in the Oxford American and numerous journals, and his non-fiction in The New York Times Magazine. Read his free weekly Substack post at “South Bound.” David is a former newspaper journalist, and he and his wife were long-time adopters of retired Greyhound racers from the (now closed) track in West Memphis.