Benjamin Percy is the author of four novels, including The Dark Net, The Dead Lands, Red Moon and The Wilding, as well as three books of short stories, including Suicide Woods and Refresh, Refresh. His craft book, Thrill Me: Essays on Fiction, was published in 2016. His next novel, The Ninth Metal: Book I of the Comet Cycle, will be published in June of 2021. He broke in to comics with a two-issue Batman story arc for Detective Comics. He is known for runs on Wolverine, Nightwing, Green Arrow, Teen Titans, and James Bond. He is part of the new dawn of X-Men at Marvel and currently writes Wolverine and X-Force. His fiction and nonfiction had appeared on NPR and in 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. His honors include and NEA fellowship, the Whiting Writers' Award, two Pushcart Prizes, the Plimpton Prize, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics. He is a member of the WGA screenwriters' guild and has sold scripts to Paramount, FOX, and Starz. He currently has several film and TV projects in development.
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