Jen Percy is a contributing editor at the New Republic and author of Demon Camp, which was a New York Times Notable Book of 2014 and Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick.  She’s the winner of the 2017 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, as well as the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her essays have appeared in the the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Harper's, BookForum, the New Republic, Esquire, and elsewhere. She now teaches creative writing at Columbia University.

“The Nonfiction Writing Program is a gem of an intellectual and artistic community. I arrived with a stagnant idea of nonfiction and left understanding the rich possibilities of the genre. The program helped me recognize the potential in my own work, and in the work of my peers, making me a better and more empathetic writer, reader and thinker.”