William Lohier

About The Author

William Lohier is a Haitian and Korean American writer from Brooklyn, New York. He is an English PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, and received his master’s degree from Oxford and bachelor’s degree from Harvard. His fiction has appeared in One Story and his story “Drapetomania” was selected by Celeste Ng for The Best American Short Stories 2025.

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Books by William Lohier

Black Star Line

Stories

By William Lohier

Black Star Line is a genre-defying story collection in the vein of Octavia Butler and Jordan Peele that fuses speculative fiction, Sci-Fi, and magical realism to explore Black life at the edge of collapse and possibility.

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