Will Boast is the author of Power Ballads (2011), a story collection that won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Boast grew up in England, Ireland, and Wisconsin and received a BA from Knox College in Illinois and an MFA from the University of Virginia. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford University. A Charles Pick Fellow at the University of East Anglia, he is at work on a novel and a memoir.