Writing

“Hillegonds’s candor and insight are a marvel, his
storytelling gripping, harrowing, and beautiful.”

“Hillegonds’s candor and insight are a marvel, his storytelling gripping, harrowing, and beautiful.”

“Hillegonds’s candor and insight are a marvel, his storytelling gripping, harrowing, and beautiful.”

“Hillegonds’s candor and insight are a marvel, his storytelling gripping, harrowing, and beautiful.”

“Hillegonds’s candor and insight are a marvel, his storytelling gripping, harrowing, and beautiful.”

—MICHELE MORANO

author of Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain

Timothy J. Hillegonds writes essays grounded in lived experience, often navigating themes like masculinity, addiction, recovery, and the long arc of accountability. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Salon, The Daily Beast, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Review of Books, and a wide range of literary journals.

In Print

Embodying Masculinity: Two Writers on Gender, Binaries, and Moving Beyond

Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction

And Then We Are Leaving

River Teeth

This, or Everything and Nothing

Under the Gum Tree

The Right Kind of Time

The Fourth River

Biology

Rhino

Working for a Lineman in Colorado

Rhino

Book Reviews

Images, Landscapes, And The Restrained Alchemy Of Short Prose: On Barrie Jean Borich's "Apocalypse, Darling" And Beth Ann Fennelly's "Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs"

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