He is best known for a trilogy of short novels: Spurious (2011), Dogma (2012), and Exodus (2013), all published by Melville House.
Iyer has been shortlisted for both the Believer Book Award (Spurious, 2011) and the Goldsmiths Prize (Exodus, 2013).
He has also written and published two books about Maurice Blanchot.Iyer is a lecturer at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.Iyer has published, in The White Review, "a literary manifesto after the end of Literature and Manifestos" which has attracted some attention.