Benjamin Percy

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Benjamin Percy
Born (1979-03-28) March 28, 1979
Eugene, Oregon
Alma mater Brown University;
Southern Illinois University
Genre Novel, Short Story
Notable awards Plimpton Prize;
Whiting Award,
Spouse Lisa Percy

Benjamin Percy (born March 28, 1979) is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, comics writer, and screenwriter.

Life

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, he 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.

Writing

He has published three novels (The Dead Lands, Red Moon, The Wilding) as well as two books of short fiction (Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk and Refresh, Refresh).

His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire Magazine (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.

He writes the Green Arrow series for DC Comics.

He is a member of the WGA screenwriters' guild, having sold scripts to FOX and Starz.

His honors include the Whiting Writers Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, an NEA fellowship and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.

Bibliography

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Books

Comics

Short fiction

Title Year First published Reprinted/collected
Refresh, Refresh 2005 Percy, Benjamin (2005). "Refresh, Refresh". The Paris Review 175. Retrieved 2015-08-27.  Percy, Benjamin (2007). Refresh, Refresh. Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-55597-485-5. 
Writs of Possession 2011 Percy, Benjamin (Spring 2011). "Writs of Possession". Virginia Quarterly Review 87 (2). Retrieved 2015-03-08.  Percy, Benjamin (2013). "Writs of Possession". In Henderson, Bill. The Pushcart Prize XXXVII : best of the small presses 2013. Pushcart Press. pp. 217–231. 

References

  1. ↑ http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/10/20/the_wilding_fathers_sons_and_the_pull_of_the_forest/
  2. ↑ http://benjaminpercy.com/comics/
  3. ↑ http://www.newsarama.com/24641-acclaimed-novelist-brings-dark-aesthetic-to-green-arrow-in-june.html

External links

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