Robin Hemley is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on DO-OVER!  He has published eight books of fiction and non-fiction, and his stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and many other literary magazines and anthologies. He received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop; he currently directs the Non-fiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City.  Hemley’s book, Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday (2006) deals with the purported "ethnographic hoax of the century” and in his latest book, DO-OVER!, Hemley returns to his childhood with an adults perspective to do-over and improve upon past embarrassments such as his lackluster performance at summer camp and his dateless prom.