Benjamin Percy
| Benjamin Percy | |
|---|---|
Percy in 2006
|
|
| Born |
March 28, 1979 Eugene, Oregon |
| Alma mater |
Brown University; Southern Illinois University |
| Genre | Novel, Short Story |
| Spouse | Lisa Percy |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
Benjamin Percy (born March 28, 1979) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, comics writer, and screenwriter.
Benjamin Percy was born in Eugene, Oregon, and in his early life lived briefly in Hawaii. His family moved to Tumalo, Oregon when Percy was in the fourth grade and remained there until he graduated high school.
He attended Brown University, where he earned his degree in English/Creative Writing, and then went on to graduate school at Southern Illinois University, earning his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, with a teaching fellowship.
After teaching at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, Marquette University, Iowa State University, and St. Olaf College, Percy stepped away from academia to write full-time. He remains active on the lecture circuit and teaches at conferences and festivals such as the Tin House Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
He has published three novels, The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding, as well as two books of short fiction: Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. In 2016, he published his first book of non-fiction, a collection of essays on writing and genre fiction: Thrill Me.
His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire, where he is a contributing editor, GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, The Wall Street Journal, The Paris Review, Tin House, Glimmer Train, McSweeney's, and Ploughshares.
...
Wikipedia