Benjamin Percy

Benjamin Percy is the author of a novel, The Wilding, forthcoming next year, and two story collections, Refresh, Refresh (Graywolf, 2007) and The Language of Elk (Carnegie Mellon, 2006). His fiction and nonfiction have been published by Esquire, Men’s Journal, and the Paris Review, among others. His honors include a Whiting Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Plimpton Prize, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories. He teaches in the MFA program at Iowa State University.

Articles

• The Tree

  The tree threatens to crush the larvae into a yellow paste if the wasps do not do its bidding and find the girl.