Mona Annette Williams (born 27 July 1943) is a Guyanese–New Zealand children's author, memoirist, oral storyteller and educator.

[4] Williams graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor of arts degree in mass communications, attending on both Ford Foundation and Fulbright Program scholarships.

[11] While studying at Stanford she worked in radio and television in San Francisco, and her storytelling programme Roots and Branches, broadcast on KQED, won a local Emmy award in 1971.

[6] She has also worked as a teacher in primary schools,[12] and lectured at the Palmerston North College of Education, later Massey University, retiring from this role in 2002.

[4][7][9] In 2018, she collaborated with Jan Bolwell on the autobiographical play Once Upon a Dance, performed by them both at Te Whaea in Wellington and at the Globe Theatre and Regent on Broadway in Palmerston North.

[16] In November 2023, she presented the annual Panui lecture for Read NZ Te Pou Muramura at the National Library of New Zealand.