{"id":474,"date":"2025-09-20T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/?page_id=474"},"modified":"2025-09-28T03:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T07:08:46","slug":"kamla-williams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/kamla-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamla Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row el_id=&#8221;getting-here&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1759043318215{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h1 class=\"display-2 special-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Authors<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<h5 class=\"display-2 special-title\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Kamla Williams<\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]Kamla Williams has 70 years of life\u2019s experiences, slivers of which would sometimes flow through her fingers and be captured in the forms of simple stories and poignant poems. Her Caribbean heritage co-mingles with her Canadian resettlement to inform and enrich her literary creations. She is also a woman of faith, a follower of Christ, and lives by the tenets of The Serenity Prayer. She allows these aspects of her life to guard and guide her penning. 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