William Pierce (he/him) is the author of the as-yet-unpublished novel Twenty Sixteen, excerpts of which have appeared in Harvard Review, The Western Humanities Review, and the Freeman’s channel at Literary Hub. His short stories have appeared in Granta, Ecotone, The Cream City Review, American Literary Review, and elsewhere, and his essays in Electric Literature, The Writer’s Chronicle, Solstice, Consequence, The Continental, and regularly in AGNI, which he leads with Sven Birkerts and Shuchi Saraswat. 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).