William K Hugel grew up in Central New York State. After leaving university he wrote two literary novels, The Dancer and The Fool (1999) and Napoleon, The Man Who Found a War (2004) which was short-listed for the Faulkner-Wisdom Award.

After living and traveling throughout America, William eventually adopted New Orleans as his home. After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina he moved to Dublin, Ireland. It was here that he wrote a series of fables and fairy tales.

After leaving Ireland William moved to San Francisco to begin self-publishing the first three of these original fairy tales through Mystic World Press. , including handmade editions. His first release, Beautiful Wild Rose Girl, received a rave review from Children’s Bookwatch, and was awarded a gold medal from Children’s Literary Classics International Book Awards.

William now lives in the greater NYC area. He has written several plays, including two full-length works, Kronos and HER. His plays have had productions, readings, or workshops at Theater For The New City, Stella Adler, The Dennis & Victoria Ross Foundation, Pulse Ensemble Theater, Between Us Productions, Playwrights at The Grand and The Midtown International Theater Festival. He is experimenting with a new kind of theater, which he calls historical metaphysicalism, an attempt to understand our current moment in time by examining the history of human thought, the crisis of detachment we now find ourselves in, and what might lie in the future.

Most recently, William began producing non-fiction work, which draws on his extensive research of the history of modern science and Western thought. This work may be called literary philosophy, “anti-philosophy” or perhaps a radical form of critical philosophy, as it attempts to shatter the illusions of rationalism, mathematics and science as a worldview.