Ben's profile of John Irving will appear in the April 23rd issue of TIME magazine.

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.

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.

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

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.

Ben Percy was raised in the High Desert of Central Oregon. He received his BA with Honors from Brown University and his MFA with a teaching fellowship from Southern Illinois University.  

Ben teaches in the MFA program at Iowa State University and at the Low-Res MFA program at Pacific University. He has also taught as guest faculty at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and regularly lectures at conferences and universities around the country.

He is the author of two novels, Red Moon (forthcoming from Grand Central / Hachette in 2013), The Wilding (Graywolf, 2010), and two books of short stories, Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf, 2007) and The Language of Elk (Carnegie Mellon, 2006).

His fiction and nonfiction have been read on National Public Radio, performed at Symphony Space, and published by Esquire, GQ, Men's Journal, Outside, Paris Review, Chicago Tribune, Glimmer Train, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications.

When he isn't hunched over the keyboard, hammering out stories, Ben enjoys hiking, canoeing, fishing, skiing, and throwing back a few pints with friends and family.

He lives in Ames, Iowa, with his wife and two children.