Will Boast was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. His story collection, Power Ballads, won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award and was a finalist for a California Book Award. His fiction and essays have appeared in Best New American Voices, Narrative, Salon, Glimmer Train, The American Scholar, and The New York Times, among other publications. He’s been a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University and a Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia in the UK. His memoir, The Pantomime Horse, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton Co/Liveright and Granta Books.
Contact: will.boast@gmail.com
Press/Publicity: Allison Means, University of Iowa Press: allison-means@uiowa.edu
Newcastle West, County Limerick, Ireland. Age 5.
Berlin, 2011. Portrait by Rafael Yaluff Portilla of Santiago de Chile
