Will received his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa's Program in Nonfiction Writing in May of 1997 and has since been teaching undergraduate course offerings in both the English and Rhetoric Departments. He is a member of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, NCTE, CCCC, and the Midwest Writing Center Association. Will has served as a faculty leader in the Rhetoric Department's Professional Development Program. He directs The Morphing Textbook project, as well as the department's multimedia and web-based instructional technology projects. Will is also co-directing the Speaking Center in 2006-2007.

Will teaches a range of undergraduate course offerings including Honors and GER Rhetoric classes, the Undergraduate Nonfiction Workshop, Nonfiction Writing, Forms of the Essay, Forms of Nonfiction, Contextual Research and the Personal Narrative, and Multimedia Writing. He has also supervised numerous Independent Study Projects in Creative Nonfiction, as well as the Undergraduate Honors Teaching Practicum in Multimedia Writing. In past semesters Will has served as a faculty editorial advisor for the undergraduate publications, SMACK! and Earthwords. Awarded the ICON Prize in Creative Nonfiction in 2000, Will is currently at work on Dead Reckoning, a book-length narrative project exploring the ways in which intimate violence alters the public landscape.

Will is also a musician and songwriter who performs in concert and at regional festivals as a member of the band, Big Wooden Radio. He has appeared in concert on Iowa Public Television, at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, at South by South West (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, and as a regular with AWP's annual "Writers Who Play".