Timothy Denevi received his MFA in nonfiction from the University of Iowa. His writing has appeared in various magazines including "The Atlantic", "Time", "Gulf Coast", and "Arts & Letters", and he s been awarded fellowships by The MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. He lives near Washington, DC and teaches in the MFA program at George Mason University. "Hyper" is his first book.