April Pierce

April Elisabeth Pierce has lived and worked in Padang, Indonesia, Oxford, England, Montreal, Canada, and the United States. Her particular interest is in metaphor and cognition.

While studying at Oxford, she founded TONE, a women’s journal, and forum for political discussions within the student community. Her project will culminate in a special masters thesis on metaphor and philosophy in 2011 through the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Masters in Humanities and Social Thought at New York University. She is currently an editor for New York University’s Anamesa Interdisciplinary
Journal, and contributes to The Critical Flame Literary Review, is a published poet, and freelance writer.

Her research interest is the intersection between literary theory and philosophy, including cognitive models, tropes, methods of inquiry, and the biological precondition of any metaphysical pursuit. Primary philosophical influences include Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger.