Megan Williams is an award-winning writer, foreign correspondent and radio documentary producer-reporter based in Rome, Italy and author of the critically acclaimed story collection Saving Rome.

Megan's recent awards include the 2011 James Beard Award for best radio broadcast, Gold Medal at the 2010 New York Festivals International Radio Broadcasting Awards, the 2010 Gabriel Award for "ability to uplift and nourish the human spirit," and second place at the 2010 Prix Italia for works on music. She has also won the top awards at the International TV and Radio Festival of Gastronomy Programs and honorable mentions at the New York Festivals.

Megan's radio reports, documentaries and essays can be heard regularly on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, BBC-PRI's The World, Deutsche Welle, Marketplace, NPR, and other public radios. She has written for dozens of magazines and newspapers, including the Globe and Mail, Salon.com, Nature Magazine and The Toronto Star.

She has reported from countries and regions around the world, including Europe, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Mozambique, Swaziland, Gabon, Chad, Darfur, Cambodia, India, Albania and Malta.

Megan was a fellow at Yaddo artists colony in 2011, the MacDowell Colony in 2010 and a writer-in-residence at The Banff Centre for the Arts' Literary Journalism Program in 2008. 

Recent publications include her essay Driving Lessons, published in Cabin Fever: The Best New Canadian Non-Fiction, Thomas Allen.

Megan has an Honours B.A. from McGill University and Masters from Columbia University Journalism School, where she was awarded a Pulitzer Fellowship.

She is fluent in written and spoken Italian and French and speaks some Spanish.