Will Boast was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. He is the author of the debut novel Daphne (Liveright, 2018); a story collection Power Ballads, which won the Iowa Short Fiction Award; and a memoir, Epilogue. Boast has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia, and a Literature Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, and he teaches at the University of Chicago and the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center in Rome.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Daphne, a novel excerpt, in Stories of the Week: 2017–2018
- Overdue, a memoir, in Stories of the Week: 2014–2015
- Sitting In, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2011–2012
- Coda, a short story, in Winter 2011
- At the Center of the Sailing World, a short story, in Spring 2011