Terek Hopkins is a fiction writer from California. He went to school in Oregon, and then moved to Spain, where he worked as an English teacher for a couple of years. When he got back he worked on a cattle ranch, and as a bartender. He has always done his best to live near water.

His stories have appeared in Connotation Press, Hawaii Pacific Review, Columbia Journal and The Normal School, and elsewhere. His short story, “She Used to Steal Horses” appears in Epoch Magazine’s 71:1 edition. His first novel, Tourniquet, is uhh lol still being written.