She moved to Brooklyn shortly after graduation and has lived there since. Williams received her bachelor's degree from University of Virginia in 1997. She named The Westing Game as one book that shaped her into an aspiring writer. She began writing during childhood and wrote her first book at age seven.

Williams was raised in a suburban area of Virginia. She is also a long-time fashion editor and the current editorial director for the Estée Lauder Companies. She has published six books and is best known for The Accidental Diva (2004), The Perfect Find (2016), and Seven Days in June (2021). With its keen observations of creative life in America today, as well as the joys and complications of being a mother and a daughter, Seven Daysin June is a hilarious, romantic, and sexy-as-hell story of two writers discovering their second chance at love.Tia Williams is an American novelist and editor. Before Shane disappears though, she needs a few questions answered… Over the next seven days, amidst a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect - but Eva’s wary of the man who broke her heart, and wants him out of the city so her life can return to normal. While they may be pretending not to know each other, they can’t deny their chemistry - or the fact that they’ve been secretly writing to each other in their books through the years. What no one knows is that fifteen years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone’s surprise, shows up in New York.

Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again…Įva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways and Small Great Things “Tia Williams’s book is a smart, sexy testament to Black joy, to the well of strength from which women draw, and to tragic romances that mature into second chances. I absolutely loved it.”

The instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon book club pick is 'a heady combination of book love and between-the-sheets love.” (Ruth Ware) Fiction, African American Fiction, Literature, Romance

Seven days in june by tia williams