Benjamin Percy!
We’re thrilled to announce that the brilliant Benjamin Percy will be coming to Columbia next April to participate in the festival!
Benjamin Percy is the author of six novels -- most recently, The Unfamilar Garden -- three story collections -- including Suicide Woods -- and a book of essays titled Thrill Me that is widely taught in creative writing classrooms.
He co-wrote the feature film Summering with director James Ponsoldt. Produced by Sony's Stage 6 and Bleeker Street, it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival before releasing widely in theaters in 2022. He and Ponsoldt are also currently adapting Urban Cowboy into a series for Paramount Plus.
He writes Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider for Marvel. He has also written for DC Comics and Dynamite Entertainment and is known for his celebrated runs on Green Arrow, Teen Titans, Nightwing, and James Bond.
His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire (where he is a contributing editor), GQ, Time, Men's Journal, Outside, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Ploughshares, Tin House, McSweeney's, and the Paris Review.
His other honors include the Whiting Award, an NEA fellowship, the Whiting Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, the iHeartRadio Award for Best Scripted Podcast, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories, 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories, and Best American Comics.
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