Jen Percy

JEN PERCY is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and recipient of the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. She is the author of the nonfiction book Demon Camp, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Percy has received numerous awards including a Pushcart Prize, the National Endowment for the Arts grant, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the MacDowell Colony. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Percy has published essays in the New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Harper’s, BookForum, The New Republic, Esquire, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at Columbia University.