Will Boast is the author of a story collection, Power Ballads (Iowa Short Fiction Award), a memoir, Epilogue (Liveright/Norton and Granta Books), and a novel, Daphne (Liveright/Norton and Granta Books). His short fiction, reporting, and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Guardian, The American Scholar, 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, the University of London, and the Joel Nafuma Refugee center in Rome.

He currently lives in London.