Rick Williams

Background

About Rick Williams

Rick Williams served in the Army from 1969 to 1971, including thirteen months at the 3rd Surgical Army Hospital (MASH) in Binh Thuy, Vietnam, as a medical corpsman in the intensive care unit. He was also a physician assistant (PA) with New York City Prison Health Services (Rikers Island) and the Veterans Medical Center, New Orleans, in the psychiatry service. Later professional experience was as a lawyer and judge with the Board of Veterans Appeals in Washington, D.C. during which he authored over appellate opinions. Following his retirement from law, Williams authored an overview of the Veterans Treatment Court in Glimpses of the New Veteran (Carolina Academic Press, 2015). Switching to creative writing his short stories, “The Girl in the Oxygen Tent” and “Why Was Jesus Laughing?” were published by the Deadly Writers Patrol (Spring 2018 and Spring 2021 issues). Williams’s thirteen short stories with color photographs of eighteen of his portraits of veterans appear in Seeing the Light, published by Poets-Choice and available for purchase on the BarnesandNobel.com. His short story “A Lamp Unto His Feet” and “Trapped in a Vise” were published by Flash Fiction Magazine in March 2003. Infinitely Complex, a book of 22 short stories about veterans, mental illness, alcoholism, other addictions, immigrants, and bigotry is now available on Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com Williams participated in the University of Iowa’s summer Creative Writers’ Workshop in 2019. Williams also studied art at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. and with Walt Bartman at the Yellow Barn Studio in Glen Echo, Maryland. for seven years (nights). Seven of his paintings are part of the permanent collection of the National Veterans Art Museum (formerly National Vietnam Art Museum) in Chicago, Illinois. His portraits of veterans wounded or killed in action are part of the permanent collections of the VA Regional Offices in New York City and Buffalo, New York. Rick resides in Bethesda, Maryland; Buffalo, New York; and Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.