William Pierce (he/him) is editor of the literary and cultural magazine AGNI. His short stories have appeared in Granta, Ecotone, American Literary Review, and elsewhere; his story translations in New England Review and forthcoming in The Georgia Review; and his nonfiction in, among other publications, Harvard Review, World Literature Today, and Literary Hub. Pierce is also the author of Reality Hunger: On Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle (Arrowsmith Press, 2016), a monograph first serialized as a three-part essay at The Los Angeles Review of Books. His work has been cited as Notable twice in The Best American Essays and given Special Mention three times in The Pushcart Prize.