Editing

As senior editor of AGNI, William Pierce has edited the work of hundreds of other writers, including Seamus Heaney, Melanie Rae Thon, Rita Dove, Russell Banks, Robert Olen Butler, Lia Purpura, Sven Birkerts, Rikki Ducornet, Askold Melnyczuk, Tom Sleigh, Liam Rector, Mary O’Donoghue, Gail Mazur, Eamon Grennan, Edith Pearlman, Richard Tillinghast, Nicholas Montemarano, Stephen Dunn, Jhumpa Lahiri, Dan Chiasson, Brock Clarke, Patricia Goedicke, Kim Addonizio, Fred Marchant, David Gates, Peter LaSalle, Magdalena Tulli, Vince Passaro, Carol Moldaw, Quan Barry, Rick Moody, Simon Armitage, and James Tate.

He served, in 2007, as editor-in-residence at the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia.