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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Like Elwood Reid and Jim Harrison, Benjamin Percy's stories are big-muscled and big-hearted.  His characters hurl themselves toward change like salmon hurling their way home.  This is feisty American fiction."

Alyson Hagy, Author of Graveyard of the Atlantic, Keeneland, Hardware River and Madonna on her Back.

 



 

"The Long, Black Coat" Cemetery Dance, TBA

"Run" The L Magazine, Summer Fiction Issue, 2008

"Somebody Is Going To Have to Pay For This" Barcelona Review, Issue 63, May 2008

"April 20, 2008" Esquire, May, 2008

"The Long, Black Coat" Hobart, Fall 2007

"The Killing" Salt Hill Journal, Fall 2007

"The Whisper " Cream City Review , Fall 2007

"So Far From Anything" Esquire, October, 2007

"When the Bear Came" American Short Fiction, Summer 2007

"In the Rough " The Antioch Review, Summer 2007

"The Caves in Oregon" Glimmer Train, Issue #64, Summer 2007

"Dial Tone" Missouri Review, Issue 30:2, Summer 2007

"Somebody Is Going to Have to Pay for This" The Paris Review, Issue #180, Spring 2007

"The Faulty Builder" ReDivider , Vol. 4, Issue# 2, Spring 2007

"Obsidian Junior High -- November" Esquire, February 2007

"Where to Begin" Minnesota Monthly, $1,000 winner of the Tamarack Award, Issue 312, November 2006

"Unearthed" Rosebud, Issue #36, Summer 2006

"The Hand" Storyglossia, Issue #13, Spring 2006

"Refresh, Refresh" The Paris Review, #175, Winter 2005/06

"The Bearded Lady Says Goodnight" Swink, Issue #3, Spring 2006

"Winter's Trappings" Hayden's Ferry Review, Fall 2005

"The Iron Moth" Greensboro Review, Spring 2005

"The Woods" AMAZING Stories, Issue # 608 , January 2005

"The Funeralgoer" Carve Magazine, January 2005

"Unearthed" Sycamore Review, Winter 2004/05

"Bigfooting" Rosebud, Winter 2004/05

"Crash" Western Humanities Review, Fall 2004

"Swans" Idaho Review, $1,000 Editor's Prize, Volume VI, 2004

"The Whale" The Land-Grant College Review, Featured Author for March 2004

"The Indian Way " FrostProof Review, Inaugural Issue, Spring 2004

"Zombies!" Midnight Mind Magazine, Page-One Column, Spring 2004

"Getting the Most Out of Your Weekend" Pindeldyboz, Fall 2003

"The Worst University Ever" Midnight Mind Magazine, Page-One Column, Summer 2003

"The Language of Elk" Greensboro Review, Spring 2003

"The Whale" Florida Review, Spring 2003

"Falling" The Chicago Tribune, $1,500 Nelson Algren Award, Sunday, October 27, 2002

"Placeville" The Eternal Night, September 2002

"What Would You Rather?" Mississippi Review, "Ordinary Evil" Issue, Summer 2002