Heather Williams, who publishes under the pen name Missouri Williams, is an English novelist, playwright, and editor based in Prague. She serves as editor of Another Gaze, a feminist film journal, and has contributed writing to publications including The Nation, The Baffler, and Granta. While her work is frequently categorized as science fiction or speculative fiction, Williams has stated she wants no part of that classification. Her second novel, The Vivisectors, was longlisted for the Booker Prize.