Timothy Denevi's first book, Hyper, will be published by Simon & Schuster in September. He received his MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa. He's been awarded fellowships by The MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and his writing has recently appeared in Gulf Coast, Arts & Letters, and Hawaii Review. He currently teaches nonfiction in the MFA program at George Mason University, where he’s a visiting writer.