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Jennifer Percy | |
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| Born | Oregon |
| Education | Iowa Writers' Workshop |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Relatives | Benjamin Percy (brother) |
| Website | www |
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]
Career
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Jen's brother is writer Benjamin Percy.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Jennifer Percy Archives". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved January 16, 2026.
- ↑ "Meet the American Vigilantes who are Fighting ISIS". The New York Times. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
- ↑ "Bio". Jenpercy.com. Retrieved September 30, 2015.
- ↑ https://english.uiowa.edu/people/jen-percy
- ↑ "Jennifer Percy". www.arts.gov. Retrieved January 16, 2026.
- ↑ https://www.macdowell.org/news/the-art-of-journalism-as-practiced-by-writer-jennifer-percy
- ↑ "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. Archived from the original on October 1, 2015. 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".
- ↑ "Interview with Jen Percy". the interlochen review. Retrieved January 16, 2026.
- ↑ Bennett, Jessica (November 30, 2025). "Book Review: 'Girls Play Dead,' by Jen Percy". The New York Times. Retrieved January 16, 2026.
- ↑ Delijani, Sahar (December 2, 2025). "Jen Percy by Dina Nayeri". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved January 16, 2026.
- ↑ Gilbert, Sophie (December 22, 2025). "Everything We Know About Rape Is Wrong". The Atlantic. Retrieved January 16, 2026.
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