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.

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.

Filmmaker James Ponsoldt, representing the "Refresh, Refresh" screenplay, was selected as a "Fast Track" fellow at the 2008 Los Angeles Film Festival. To read the article in Forbes, click here.

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

ANTHOLOGIES

 

 

"Refresh, Refresh" You Must Be This Tall To Ride:  Stories On Growing Up and
Essays by the People Who Wrote Them, ed. B.J. Hollars, Writers Digest Books, 2009

"Refresh, Refresh" Best of the Pushcart Prize, ed. Bill Henderson. 2009.

"Unearthed" Poe's Children, Random House, ed. Peter Straub, 2008

"Swans" Surreal South, Press 53, eds. Laura and Pinckney Benedict, 2008

"Refresh, Refresh" Selected Shorts: Wartime Lives. 2007. An audio anthology featuring actors reading such war fiction as Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried." To purchase the album, click here.

"Refresh, Refresh" The Pushcart Prize XXXI: Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson

"Refresh, Refresh" Best American Short Stories 2006, ed. Ann Patchett, Houghton Mifflin

"The Worst University Ever" Sudden Stories, ed. Dinty Moore, Mammoth Books, 2003