Reading: The Wilding

Date/Time:	Saturday, 30 Jan 2010 at 1:00 pm
Location:	Sun Room, Memorial Union
Cost:	Free
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Phone:	515-294-9934
Channel:	Lecture Series
Categories:	Lectures
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Ben Percy, assistant professor of creative writing at Iowa State, was raised in the high desert of Central Oregon. He is the author of The Wilding, forthcoming from Graywolf Press, and two books of stories, Refresh, Refresh and The Language of Elk.

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His fiction and nonfiction have been read on National Public Radio, performed at Symphony Space, and published by Esquire, Men's Journal, the Paris Review, the Chicago Tribune, Glimmer Train, and Best American Short Stories. Percy's honors include a Whiting Award, the Plimpton Prize and a Pushcart Prize.

Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.