About

Jet Williams was born in Sydney, Australia, in 2000. He grew up in Maroubra and spent part of his childhood in the Northern Territory before returning to Sydney, where he attended Champagnat Catholic College and later received a scholarship to complete high school at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill. He went on to study 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 a pseudonym.

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.

Williams never set out to become a writer. After years spent travelling, making art, and investing everything he had into ideas he hoped would work, he 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, his debut novel.