This author's debut story collection, The Language of Elk, will be published soon and, in a word from recommender Dan Wickett, the collection is "fantastic." Percy is a recent graduate from the creative writing program at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and has been placing stories all over the map from Pindeldyboz to the next issue of The Paris Review. In 2002, he won The Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award for his story "Falling." Wickett tells us that Percy is "just finishing revisions on his first novel." One to watch, as they say.
More about Benjamin Percy
+ Percy describes his experience placing his collection with CMU Press
+ "The Whale" in Land-Grant College Review
+ "Crash" in Western Humanities Review
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