Karen Williams

Karen Williams is a South African journalist who has worked in conflict zones in Africa and Asia. She was a longtime contributor to the Media Diversified (MD) website and is currently researching Indian Ocean slavery between Africa and Asia.

Her fiction, academic work, and journalism have been published in South Africa, Britain, and the United States, including in Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire; At the Rendezvous of Victory (anthology) edited by Andries Oliphant; The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction (anthology) edited by Naomi Holoch and Joan Nestle; The Invisible Ghetto (anthology) edited by Matthew Krouse; Sinister Wisdom; and Common Lives/Lesbian Lives.

She has lived and worked around the world and has been a frequent media commentator on issues of war, gender, women’s rights, and justice.