B.A. Williams (they/she) is a writer and filmmaker originally from Long Beach, California. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Otis College of Art and Design and an MA in Media Studies from The New School.

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While at The New School, they wrote and directed the short documentary If I’m Being Honest, an epistolary film that uses a letter to their son and a recorded conversation with their estranged mother to examine how abandonment is inherited and how one might choose to parent differently. The film engages vulnerability, contradiction, and silence—holding space for longing, protection, and the uneven work of breaking cycles rather than offering resolution. If I’m Being Honest premiered at the 15th annual DOC NYC Festival and received a nomination from the National Board of Review.

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B.A.’s work is driven by long-standing thematic obsessions: matrilineal memory and inheritance; motherhood and maternal estrangement; recognition and first encounter; longing and loneliness; and spectatorship and belonging. These concerns shape both the form and emotional logic of their writing and films.

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Their writing has appeared in Rigorous Magazine, Every-Other Broadsides (defunct), The Rumpus, and The New York Times: Parenting.

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B.A.’s long-term goals include writing and directing narrative and non-fiction films, building a boutique production company, and facilitating creative workshops for young Black queer storytellers.