Megan Williams is an award-winning Rome-based author and journalist.

Megan reports from around the world for public radio and has covered everything from the crisis in Darfur to AIDS in Southern Africa to post-genocide Cambodia. The main focus of her documentaries and reporting is Italy, where she covers politics, religion, culture and everyday life.

For background on Megan's writing and reporting, please click on Bio. To sample some of Megan's radio documentaries and features, please go to the Radio page. To read a few articles and essays, click on Print. And to learn more about her short story collection Saving Rome and other books, click on Books.

FEATURED RADIO DOCUMENTARIES:

Pasta: The Long and the Short of It

Listen to Megan's CBC Ideas documentary on the history and culture of one of the world's most popular, democratic and sensuous foods.
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Message in a Bottle

Listen to Megan's award-winning CBC Ideas documentary on composers Viktor Ullman and Gideon Klein who died in the Holocaust; of their struggle to create under horrific conditions; and of the group of modern-day scholars and musicians dedicated to reviving their long-silenced music.
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Saving Rome

"Riveting and very funny."
-- The Globe and Mail