William Lohier

Photograph by Stephanie Mitchell

About The Author

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.

Books by William Lohier

Black Star Line
By William Lohier
Black Star Line is a genre-defying story collection in the vein of Jordan Peele and Octavia Butler that fuses speculative fiction and satire to explore Black life at the edge of collapse and possibility.
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