About

After years spent travelling, making art, and investing everything he had into ideas he hoped would work, Jet Williams found himself back at home with his parents, broke, in debt, and newly single. Not long after returning, early one morning and unable to sleep, he felt he had nothing left to give except the story he had carried for years. He opened the Notes app on his iPhone and wrote the first lines from his bed. That moment became Off the Rails.

Jet Williams was born in Sydney, Australia, in 2000. He grew up in Maroubra and later spent time living in the Northern Territory before returning to Sydney, where he studied Design and Media at the University of New South Wales. In his early twenties, Williams travelled widely and threw himself into countless creative and digital experiments, teaching himself programming, making digital art, trying ideas that rarely went to plan, and documenting his experiences around the world. This period took him from hitchhiking across America to trainsurfing through the Sahara, all while exploring identity and creativity under the pseudonym TEJI.

These years of experimentation shaped his multidisciplinary practice and helped him find a community around his work. He eventually returned to creating under his own name, choosing a more personal and direct way of telling stories.

Off the Rails is his debut novel.