BENJAMIN PERCY  
 

 

Ben has an article -- "The Geometry of Dialogue" -- in the July/August issue of Poets & Writers.

In the fall of 2009, First Second Books will publish Refresh, Refresh as a graphic novel, illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff. Pre-Order it now on Amazon.com

Ben is the winner of a 2008 Whiting Award.

Graywolf Press has purchased Ben's novel, The Wilding, for release in early 2010.

In late 2009 filmmaker James Ponsoldt will begin filming "Refresh, Refresh" on-site in Central Oregon.

In October 2008, Random House published Poe's Children, an anthology of "new horror" edited by Peter Straub and featuring stories by Stephen King, Clive Barker, Brian Evenson, Neil Gaiman and Benjamin Percy, among others.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author of The Language of Elk and Refresh, Refresh

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


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