About

Todd Williams began writing sprawling stories and articles about his favorite sports heroes and the travails of your average grade-school student when he was just 8 years old.

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Some things never change — at least that much.

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A former journalist who spent most of his time working at South Dakota newspapers beginning in 1984 through 2010, he had long subscribed to his role as a "lifer" in the biz, writing, editing, photographing, and helping shape coverage at stops in his home town of Deadwood, Lead, Spearfish, Rapid City, Mitchell and Gettysburg over the years. But when the industry took a turn for the worse, the "lifer" called it a career and went to work overseas as a PR specialist.

 

But that wasn't the end of the writing. Beginning in 2018, Williams turned  his attention to more creative pursuits, writing and publishing poems. With an eye cast on his home state of South Dakota and his life growing up in Deadwood and the surrounding Black Hills, he began submitting poetry to local and national poetry publications and websites. 

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In 2021, he won South Dakota State Poetry Society's annual Chapbook Contest with his collection "Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear," a nostalgic collection of poems that highlighted his life in the High Plains.

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He and his wife, Heidi, spend most of their year in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, where they work, and the rest of their time largely at their home in Rapid City. They have two children, Sophia (who recently graduated from the South Dakota School of Mines in Rapid City), and Brewer (who is a sophomore at the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon).