BENJAMIN PERCY  
 

 

Ben -- and his sister Jennifer Percy -- have both been named 2012 NEA fellows.

Ben is adapting his novel The Wilding into a screenplay for director Guillermo Arriaga (Babel, 21 Grams)

A profile of Ben recently appeared in The Oregonian.

This fall of 2012, Ben is guest faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

The Wilding wins the 2011 Society of Midlands Authors Award for Fiction

The Gotham Group buys film rights to Red Moon. Click here to read the article in Variety.

Ben is excited to report that he has sold his next novel, Red Moon, to Grand Central / Hachette, where he will be working with editor Helen Atsma.

The Wilding received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. "A contemporary Deliverance."

Ben scaled and hammocked the night in a 250-ft old growth Douglas fir. His article "Taking Tree-Hugging to New Heights" was featured in the October 9, 2010 edition of The Wall Street Journal. Click here to read.

Ben has an interview with horror master Peter Straub in the spring issue of Tin House

Click here to read Ben's article "Home Improvement: Revision as Renovation" from Poets & Writers magazine.

Ben has an article in the June issue of Outside magazine called "Never Been to Disneyland."

Ben reads from his story -- "Heart of a Bear" -- published in the March/April issue of Orion. Download the podcast here.

USA Today has listed the illustrated adaptation of Refresh, Refresh as one of the top ten comics/graphic novels of the year.

Dodge dropped off a one-ton Ram at Ben's house. He writes about the experience in the Esquire. Click here to read the article.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author of The Wilding, Refresh, Refresh, and The Language of Elk

Winner of the Whiting Award, the Plimpton Prize and anthologized in Best American Short Stories

Esquire Contributor

Assistant Professor in the MFA program at Iowa State University

Faculty member at the Low-Res MFA program at Pacific University

Photo by Jennifer May

 

"One of our most accomplished younger writers. Benjamin Percy moves instinctively toward the molten center of contemporary writing, the place where genre fiction, in this case horror, overflows its boundaries and becomes something dark and grand and percipient."

Peter Straub, New York Times-bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning Author of In the Night Room, Lost Boy, Lost Girl, Ghost Story, and Koko

"These stories mark the beginning of what is bound to be a long and brilliant career for Benjamin Percy."

Ann Patchett, New York Times-bestselling and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning Author of Truth and BeautyBel Canto, and The Magician's Assistant

"I admire the work of Benjamin Percy for its sheer ferocity and compassion, for its deep empathy for people at the hard edges of rage and grief and fear. The stories in Refresh, Refresh are big-hearted and drunk and dangerous, and there's a heightened, unnerving vibe as you travel through Percy's world." 

Dan Chaon,  Author of Among the Missing and You Remind Me of Me

"Benjamin Percy...is unafraid of story, plot, and writes of plain lives in crisis without blinking, in sinewy, rippling prose, the rhythms of his sentences ever taking us more deeply inside."

Daniel Woodrell, Pen/West Award-winning Author of Tomato Red, Winter's Bone, and The Death of Sweet Mister

"...Benjamin Percy is the best new writer to step into the spotlight in years."

Brady Udall, Author of The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint and Letting Loose the Hounds

"Friends of literature, please welcome the new master of the American grotesque, Benjamin Percy."

Mike Magnuson, Author of Lummox: The Evolution of a Man, The Fire Gospels and The Right Man for the Job

" Benjamin Percy is a force."

Anthony Doerr, Author of The Shell Collector and About Grace