Will Boast was born in England and grew up in Ireland and Wisconsin. His fiction has appeared in Best New American Voices 2009, Narrative, Glimmer Train, the Southern Review, Mississippi Review, and other publications and is forthcoming in the American Scholar. He holds an MFA from the University of Virginia and is a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Currently, he lives and writes in San Francisco and moonlights as a performing musician around the Bay Area. He's working on both a novel and a memoir.

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