Benjamin Percy

Benjamin Percy is the author of seven novels -- most recently The Sky Vault (William Morrow, 2024) -- three story collections and a book of essays, Thrill Me, that is widely taught in creative writing classrooms. He writes Wolverine, X-Force, Ghost Rider, and the Predator series for Marvel Comics. He has been a member of the WGA since 2014 and has sold projects to FOX, Starz, AGBO, Paramount, Temple Hill, and Sony, among others. He has several projects in development, including Urban Cowboy, which he and director James Ponsoldt are co-writing as a series for Paramount Television. His fiction and nonfiction have been published in Esquire (where he was a contributing editor), GQ, Men's Journal, Outside, the New York Times, and the Paris Review. His honors include the McKnight Fellowship, an NEA fellowship, the Whiting Award, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, the iHeart Radio Award for Best Scripted Podcast, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories and Best American Comics.