Jennifer Percy
American writer
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Jennifer Percy is an American writer. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Harper's,[1] and The New Republic.[2][3]
Jennifer Percy | |
|---|---|
| Born | Oregon |
| Education | Iowa Writers' Workshop |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Relatives | Benjamin Percy (brother) |
| Website | www |
Career
Jen Percy is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she received a Truman Capote Fellowship in fiction.[4] She also received an Iowa Arts Fellowship from Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. She won of a Pushcart Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts,[5] and MacDowell Foundation.[6]
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.[7]
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.[8]
Awards and honors
In 2012, Percy received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.[9] In 2013, she won a Pushcart Prize.[10]
In 2017, she won the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing.[11]
In 2020, she was honored with a Dart Center award.[12]
Works
- Demon Camp. Simon and Schuster. February 10, 2015. ISBN 978-1-4516-6206-1. [13]
- Girls Play Dead. New York, NY: Doubleday. November 11, 2025. ISBN 978-0-385-55004-8. [14][15][16]
Personal life
Jen's brother is writer Benjamin Percy.