Timothy Jack Denevi is an author, essayist, and professor. Timothy Denevi is currently an assistant professor in the MFA program at George Mason University ^[1] and the nonfiction editor of Literary Hub. He is also the author of Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism (2018) and Hyper: A Personal History of ADHD (2014).

Timothy Denevi was born in Los Gatos, California. Timothy Denevi was diagnosed with ADHD at an early age. At 6 years old, he took Ritalin and suffered a psychotic reaction, which he believes attempted to consume his identity.

Timothy Denevi attended Bellarmine College Preparatory, a private, Jesuit, all-male school in the College Park neighborhood of San Jose.

Denevi received his MFA degree University of Iowa. He has also been awarded fellowships by the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Denevi's essays on politics, sports, and religion have appeared in The Atlantic , Time , The Paris Review , New York , Salon, The Normal School, and Literary Hub. He has also reported on the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

He is currently working on a project about Catholicism, the Catholic Church in the 20th century, and the academic field of the study of the historical Jesus. In it, he describes his personal experiences with spirituality.

Before Denevi wrote Hyper, he re-read the nonfiction of Tobias Wolff , Michael J. Arlen, and W. G. Sebald for inspiration. He also read the short stories of Stephanie Vaughn (particularly Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, and Dog Heaven), Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics , and the works of Denis Johnson.

Denevi currently lives with his family in Washington, D.C. His favorite book is The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald.