About

Hillegonds’s debut announces that he’s a writer to watch.”

—HOPE EDELMAN

author of Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

Bio

Timothy J. Hillegonds is the author of the memoirs And You Will Call It Fate
(University of Nebraska Press, 2026) and The Distance Between (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association Book of
the Year and the Eric Hoffer Book Award. His work—exploring masculinity,
addiction, and personal reckoning—has appeared in The Guardian, The Los
Angeles Review of Books, Salon, The Daily Beast, Fourth Genre, River Teeth,
Brevity, and elsewhere.

Named one of the Guild Literary Complex’s “30 Writers to Watch,” Hillegonds
holds an MA in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University and serves as a contributing editor at Slag Glass City, a digital journal of the urban essay arts.

Timothy J. Hillegonds is the author of the memoirs And You Will Call It Fate
(University of Nebraska Press, 2026) and The Distance Between (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year and the Eric Hoffer Book Award. His work—exploring masculinity, addiction, and personal reckoning—has appeared in The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, The Daily Beast, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Brevity, and elsewhere.

Named one of the Guild Literary Complex’s “30 Writers to Watch,” Hillegonds holds an MA in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University and serves as a contributing editor at Slag Glass City, a digital journal of the urban essay arts.

Timothy J. Hillegonds is the author of the memoirs And You Will Call It Fate
(University of Nebraska Press, 2026) and The Distance Between (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year and the Eric Hoffer Book Award. His work—exploring masculinity, addiction, and personal reckoning—has appeared in The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, The Daily Beast, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Brevity, and elsewhere.

Named one of the Guild Literary Complex’s “30 Writers to Watch,” Hillegonds holds an MA in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University and serves as a contributing editor at Slag Glass City, a digital journal of the urban essay arts.

Timothy J. Hillegonds is the author of the memoirs And You Will Call It Fate
(University of Nebraska Press, 2026) and The Distance Between (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), a finalist for the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year and the Eric Hoffer Book Award. His work—exploring masculinity, addiction, and personal reckoning—has appeared in The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, The Daily Beast, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Brevity, and elsewhere.

Named one of the Guild Literary Complex’s “30 Writers to Watch,” Hillegonds holds an MA in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University and serves as a contributing editor at Slag Glass City, a digital journal of the urban essay arts.