Product Description: [Sheppard Williams]poems about serving others in a dementia ward are especially beautiful. There the surprise comes in discovering the living core of humanity inside a person silenced by disability.

Product Description: I call [these stories] God Stories because God figures in them, sometimes as a character.

Product Description: Marie Sheppard Williams does what Emily Dickinson does: she watches the backyard closely and notices the cosmos circling....Bill Holm, Minnesota author and poet.

Product Description: The Best Cat is a book of drawings and poems aboutguess who?the best cat.

Product Description: Theres a little Walt Whitman in there too, the tenderness without foolish sentiment toward ordinary people. --Bill Holm, Minnesota author and poet, winner of The Minnesota Book Award.

Product Description: Marie Sheppard Williams is delightfully politically incorrect. She takes us inside sheltered workshops, hospitals, funeral parlors, assorted agencies staffed by social workers, and to a United Way picnic attended by dwarfs. Her characters are unique and unforgettable...read more

Product Description: A collection of semi-autobiographical stories. Bill Holm, author of The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth says, "Among other pleasures in this book: a true shocker that plumbs the savagery of teenage girls and a brilliantly written meditation on memory in the tale of an old lady with Alzheimer’s...read more

Product Description: Marie Sheppard Williams is delightfully politically incorrect. She takes us inside sheltered workshops, hospitals, funeral parlors, assorted agencies staffed by social workers, and to a United Way picnic attended by dwarfs. Her characters are unique and unforgettable...read more