Will McGrath

Will McGrath has worked as a reporter, homeless shelter caseworker, public radio producer, UPS truck loader, Burger King mayo-applicator, ghostwriter, and ghosteditor, in slightly different order. He spent twenty months living in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho - the subject of his book, Everything Lost is Found Again (Dzanc Books 2017), which won the Disquiet Open Borders Book Prize in 2017. He has written for The Atlantic , Pacific Standard , Foreign Affairs , Guernica , and Roads &...See more

Will McGrath has worked as a reporter, homeless shelter caseworker, public radio producer, UPS truck loader, Burger King mayo-applicator, ghostwriter, and ghosteditor, in slightly different order. He spent twenty months living in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho - the subject of his book, Everything Lost is Found Again (Dzanc Books 2017), which won the Disquiet Open Borders Book Prize in 2017. He has written for The Atlantic , Pacific Standard , Foreign Affairs , Guernica , and Roads & Kingdoms , among other magazines and journals. His writing has won nonfiction awards including the 2014 Felice Buckvar Prize and has been translated into Chinese, Hungarian, and Japanese. See less