BENJAMIN PERCY  
 

 

Graywolf Press has purchased Ben's novel, The Wilding, for release in late 2009.

In the fall of 2008, Ben will begin teaching in the MFA program at Iowa State University.

Esquire has commissioned Ben to write a short story -- "April 20th, 2008" -- for their May issue.

The Hamptons Screenwriters' Lab accepted the "Refresh, Refresh" screenplay to be workshopped this May. Click here to read the Hollywood Reporter article. "Refresh, Refresh" was optioned by filmmaker James Ponsoldt whose first film, "Off the Black" (starring Nick Nolte and Timothy Hutton), premiered at Sundance in 2006 and is now available on DVD.

 

 

 

 

Author of The Language of Elk and Refresh, Refresh

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

Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point


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