He received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Hemenway is the author of the critically acclaimed Elegy on Kinderklavier, which won the 2015 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction. Hemenway’s other fiction has been published by Five Chapters, Alaska Quarterly Review, Ecotone, The Missouri Review, The Seattle Review, Meridian Literary Review and Bat City Review, among others. He has served as the Peter Taylor Scholar of Fiction Writing at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a Truman Capote Fellow of Fiction Writing and the John C. Schupes Fellow of Fiction Writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is currently at work on a novel about an Israeli mourners' colony.