Bett Williams Author

BETT WILLIAMS is the author of The Wild Kindness; A Psilocybin Odyssey (Dottir Press, Fall 2020), a memoir about growing mushrooms in the high desert of New Mexico. Her novel, Girl Walking Backwards (St. Martin’s Press) was mentioned as one of the 10 Best Young Adult Queer Novels in Vogue magazine. Dennis Cooper said of her 2003 memoir, The Wrestling Party (Alyson Press), Fantastic. An absolute dream of a book. Bett Williams writing has brains, charisma beauty and wit. She was a featured speaker at Kai Wingo’s 2015 Women and Entheogen’s Conference and the Horizons Perspectives on Psychedelics Conference in 2018. She and her partner, Beth Hill, host No Cures, Only Alchemy, an event series and podcast centered around psychedelics and culture making. In 2018 they received the Kindle Project Maker’s Muse Award. She has written for many publications, including DoubleBlind, OUT Magazine, Flaunt, Lucid News and Lenny Letter.