The Unfamiliar Garden

Benjamin Percy is the author of seven novels, the most recent among them The Sky Vault. He is also the author of The Unfamiliar Garden, The Ninth Metal, The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding, as well as three books of short stories, Suicide Woods, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk. His craft book—Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction—was published by Graywolf Press in 2016 and is now widely taught in creative writing classrooms. He broke into comics in 2014 and is known for celebrated runs on Wolverine, X-Force, Nightwing, James Bond, Devil’s Highway, and more. His fiction and nonfiction have been read on National Public Radio, performed at Symphony Space, and published by Esquire, GQ, Time, Men’s Journal, Outside, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, and Tin House. He co-wrote the feature film Summering with director James Ponsoldt. His honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Whiting Writers’ Award, two Pushcart Prizes, the Plimpton Prize, a McKnight fellowship, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics. And his story “Refresh, Refresh” was included in 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories. He is a member of the WGA screenwriters’ guild and has sold scripts to Paramount, FOX, Sony, and Starz. He currently has several film and TV projects in development.