Kim Williams (writer)

[1] After graduation she took jobs at various publications such as the Los Angeles Examiner and Flower Grower magazine,[4] and she started writing poetry and short prose based on personal experience.

[1][4] Williams was elected in 1974 to serve on the City Government Study Commission in Missoula, and she also ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Montana House of Representatives in 1978.

[1] In 1986 Williams announced on the radio program All Things Considered three weeks before her death that she had terminal cancer and was refusing chemotherapy.

[1][3] On July 16, 1986, during her last radio broadcast, she said to All Things Considered co-host Susan Stamberg "I wish to die in peace, not in pieces.

[6] A trail along the Clark Fork River in Missoula was named in her memory in 1987, and the Kim Williams Graduate Fellowship was founded for journalism students at the University of Montana.