William Lohier

William Lohier is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to that, he received his master's from Oxford and his bachelor’s from Harvard. His fiction has appeared in One Story and the Harvard Advocate. His story “Drapetomania” was selected by Celeste Ng for The Best American Short Stories 2025. A former New York City Youth Poet Laureate, he is the recipient of the 2020 Ecker Short Story Prize.