William Pierce
William Pierce (people.bu.edu/wpierce) is senior editor of AGNI and contributes a series of essays called “Crucibles.” His stories has appeared or is forthcoming in Granta, Ecotone, American Literary Review, The Chamber Four Fiction Anthology: Outstanding Stories from the Web, 2009/2010, and elsewhere. Other work has appeared in Little Star, The Cincinnati Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, and Glimmer Train. With E. C. Osondu, he coedited The AGNI Portfolio of African Fiction. (updated 4/2011)
His first essay for AGNI, “Fabulously Real,” received special mention in the 2006 Pushcart Prize anthology. He is interviewed at NewPages.com. He reads a favorite poem for the Favorite Poem Project here.
AGNI has published the following work by William Pierce:
| •Introduction to The AGNI Portfolio of African Fiction (with E. C. Osondu) |  |
| •Crucibles: Intimations of Randomness |  |
| •Crucibles: “Let Us Imagine” |  |
| •Crucibles: The Orchestration of Surprise |  |
| •Crucibles: Report on a Report |  |
| •Crucibles: Walser Before & After |  |
| •Fabulously Real |  |
| •The Visual Language of Victor Ekpuk | |
