Will Boast

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Will Boast is the author of EPILOGUE: A Memoir (Norton, Granta Books 2014) and DAPHNE (Norton, Granta Books 2018). His story collection, POWER BALLADS, won the 2011 Iowa Short Fiction Award, and he's held fellowships from the University of East Anglia, Stanford University, and the American Academy in Rome. His fiction, essays, and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in Best New American Voices, Glimmer Train, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and The American Scholar, among other publications. He's currently on the English faculty at the University of Chicago.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Short Stories 2012*

Best American Essays 2015*

* indicates notable/special mention

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