WILL BOAST is the author of a story collection,  Power Ballads; a memoir,  Epilogue; and a novel,  Daphne. His second collection, The Submerged, won the 2026 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and is forthcoming this September.

His short fiction, reporting, and essays have appeared in  The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Guardian, The American Scholar, Granta, and  the Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications.

He's held fellowships from Stanford University, the American Academy in Rome, the University of East Anglia, Yaddo, and MacDowell, and he's taught at Stanford, the University of Chicago, Royal Holloway, University of London, and the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center in Rome. He resides in Chicago and London.