Rita Williams is the author of If the Creek Don’t Rise.  Her work has appeared in Drinking Diaries: Women Serve Their Stories Straight UP, Best Food Writing for 2007, The Los Angeles Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, O at Home, Saveur, The Utne Reader and Fins and Feathers.  A contributing editor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, she is currently working on a novel, “Hammered”.  She is also a member of the USA TV Writer’s Room on the “Queen of the South” scheduled to debut March, 2016.