Georgia Press, 2012) I'll Tell You Mine: Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, editor, with Hope Edelman (University of Chicago Press, 2015) Turning Life into Fiction (Chinese edition, Renmin University Press, 2018) Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood (University of Nebraska Press, 2020) The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, with Xu Xi (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) Short stories "All Good Things are Surprises" (Narrative, 2007) References External links University of Iowa department bio Hemley's interview with Steve Paulson on To the Best of Our Knowledge on Wisconsin Public Radio Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male writers Writers from New York City Jewish American novelists 20th-century American novelists Indiana University Bloomington alumni Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni University of North Carolina at Charlotte faculty Western Washington University faculty University of Iowa faculty Vermont College of Fine Arts faculty American memoirists 21st-century American Jews