William Pierce (he/him) is editor of the literary and cultural magazine AGNI. His short stories have appeared in Granta, Ecotone, The Cream City Review, American Literary Review, and elsewhere; his fiction translations in Little Star and New England Review (forthcoming); and his nonfiction in Harvard Review, Electric Literature, The Continental, and Literary Hub, among other publications. With Caine Prize winner E. C. Osondu, he coedited The AGNI Portfolio of African Fiction.

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. He has taught writing at Boston University and Harvard University, and is represented by Madison Smartt Bell of Ayesha Pande Literary.

Bill and his partner, the novelist Shubha Sunder, run a speakeasy whose concerts have been called the “best secret show series in Boston” (Boston Hassle).