Jen Percy

Jen Percy is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and winner of a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. She is the author of Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self- Preservation (forthcoming with Doubleday) and Demon Camp: A Soldier’s Exorcism, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection. She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma, a Pushcart Prize, as well as residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the MacDowell Colony. A graduate of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in fiction, Percy’s writing has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, The New Republic, and Esquire, among others.