Silvano Williams

Silvano Williams is a Puerto Rican-born author and award-winning screenwriter. He moved to Houston as a teenager and came of age in Alief, the diverse southwest Houston neighborhood where he attended high school and college. That outsider's view of '90s Houston drives the psychological intensity of his transgressive fiction.

His debut novella, Spoon-fed Addiction, first published in 2010 and revised in 2023, is a supernatural horror noir set in Houston in 1995. It follows a nihilistic antihero addicted to grief and revenge, and the predatory presence that feeds on both. Williams's screenplay adaptation has won Best Screenplay at the L.A. Neo Noir Film & Script Festival, Best Feature Screenplay at Whispers of the Universe IFF in Melbourne, and Best Dark Drama Feature Screenplay at the Austin After Dark Film Festival.

He is also the author of The CW Chronicles, a satirical space opera trilogy that began with "Sinners"; the second volume, Ascension, is in progress. He lives in Austin, Texas.