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Jennifer Percy
American writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jennifer Percy is an American writer. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Harper's, and The New Republic.[1][2]
Career
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]
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Awards and honors
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
Jen's brother is writer Benjamin Percy.
References
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