Paige Williams (author)

Paige Williams is an American journalist and author. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker. Williams held a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, and her work has won a National Magazine Award for feature writing. She has served as editor of Nieman Storyboard and has taught classes in narrative writing for the Nieman Foundation.

Williams' work is included in the 2009 and 2011 editions of The Best American Magazine Writing and the 2003 and 2006 editions of The Best American Crime Writing. Her 2013 New Yorker article "Bones of Contention" explored the black-market fossil trade. The story was expanded into a book titled The Dinosaur Artist, published by the Hachette Book Group in 2018.