Sara Williams

Sara Williams is a former Gannett newspaper reporter and columnist whose stories enjoyed frequent national syndication in major U.S. dailies. She won various state and national journalism awards.

Ms. Williams and her husband, Bill, are blue water sailors and adventure travelers. They made several major ocean crossings in their own boat, toured closed archaeological sites in Copan, and spent time among the Garifone tribe of Honduras. They have lived in Maui, HI, Florida, and now reside in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Their extended family includes four sons, a daughter, and two grand children.

Sara Williams was in the American Studies program at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. where she worked as a government intern while attending college. She graduated in English literature from the University of Washington, Seattle, where she was a student of novelist and poet, David Wagoner. She began her career in journalism in Seattle as a staff writer and associate editor of Cascades, a nationally recognized industrial magazine.