Jennifer Percy
Jennifer Percy is an American writer. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Harper's, and The New Republic.[1][2]
Jennifer Percy | |
|---|---|
| Born | Oregon |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Iowa Writers' Workshop |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Relatives | Benjamin Percy (brother) |
| Website | www |
Career edit
Jen Percy is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received a Truman Capote Fellowship in fiction. She also received an Iowa Arts Fellowship from Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. Winner of a Pushcart Prize and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, her work has appeared in a number of magazines, including Harper’s, The New Republic, and The Oxford American. She has taught writing at New York University and Columbia University.
Percy's first book, Demon Camp: A Soldier's Exorcism, was published in 2014 by Simon and Schuster and was reviewed by the New York Times.[3]
The book focuses on post-traumatic stress disorder and what it means to be haunted by trauma. Percy drew inspiration from a newspaper article the suicide of a man haunted by an Iraqi soldier he’d killed, talking to his ghost every night. She too became almost haunted by bats which were seemingly following her. One morning, she found a cereal bowl with a dead bat in the milk.[4]
Awards and honors edit
In 2012, Percy received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.[5] In 2013, she won a Pushcart Prize.[6]
In 2017, she won the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing.[7]
In 2020, she was honored with a Dart Center award.[8]
Personal life edit
Jen's brother is writer Benjamin Percy.
References edit
- ^ "Meet the American Vigilantes who are Fighting ISIS". The New York Times. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
- ^ "Bio". Jenpercy.com. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
- ^ "Demon Camp by Jennifer Percy : Review". The New York Times. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
- ^ "An Interview with Ben and Jen Percy".
- ^ "Jennifer Percy". Arts.gov. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
- ^ "2013 Pushcart Prize Anthology". benjaminpercy.com. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
- ^ "Articles by Jennifer Percy | Smithsonian Magazine". www.smithsonianmag.com. Retrieved June 9, 2021.
- ^ "Dart Center For Journalism & Trauma".