Ricardo Wilson is the 2025-26 Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence
The Department of English is听delighted to announce Professor Ricardo Wilson听as the 2025-2026 Mordecai听Richler Writer-in-Residence.
Ricardo Wilson, a creative writer and scholar, is an associate professor of English at Williams College and the founder and executive director of听The Outpost Foundation, a residency and arts advocacy organization for writers of color from the United States and Latin America. He has, most recently, extracted from the archive and edited听Troubled Lands, a forthcoming and previously unpublished collection of short fiction from Mexico and Cuba translated by Langston Hughes in 1935 (Princeton University Press) and is the author of听An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories听(PANK Books) and听The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness听(Northwestern University Press).听An Apparent Horizon and Other Stories听was selected as a finalist for both the Vermont Book Award and the Big Other Book Award.听His writing can also be found in, among other spaces, 3:AM Magazine,听Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, BOMB, Callaloo,听The Common, CR: The New Centennial Review,听swamp pink, Northwest Review, The Offing, and听Stirring. He is at work on his forthcoming novel听Even Worse than the Nightmare.
On February 17, Ricardo Wilson will be reading from his new work听and on听March 24, we will be hosting the launch of听Troubled Lands: Stories of Mexico and Cuba听(Princeton UP, 2026), edited by Ricardo Wilson. More details to come.
Professor Wilson will also be hosting a series of workshops with students during the winter term.
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