Ian Williams Multi award-winning poet, short story writer, and novelist Ian Williams was named one of the 'ten Canadian writers to watch out for' by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2018. Williams holds a PhD in English from the University of Torono and is currently an assistant professor of poetry in the Creative Writing programme at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Reproduction, his debut novel, won the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize - the highest accolade for literature in Canada. Read More Read Less