Reading: William Pierce, Justin Reed, and Sokunthary Svay (June 9, 2017)

William Pierce is the author of Reality Hunger: On Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle(Arrowsmith Press, 2016). His fiction and essays have appeared in Granta, Ecotone, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is senior editor of the literary and cultural magazine AGNI.

Justin Reed’s fiction has appeared in Epoch, Flash, and elsewhere. He lives in Boston, where he and his wife are teachers. He is currently writing a novel about Syrian refugees in the United States.

Sokunthary (Sok) Svay is a Pushcart-nominated Khmer writer and musician from the Bronx, New York. Her writing has appeared in FLESH (Fixi Novo, 2016), Homelands: Women’s Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time (Seal Press, 2006), Prairie Schooner, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and LONTAR. She is a Willow Books Emerging Writer currently completing her first manuscript scheduled for Fall 2017 publication. She is currently Poetry Editor for Newtown Literary, the only literary journal serving the borough of Queens in New York City.