Terek Hopkins is a fiction writer from California. He learned how to write at the University of Oregon’s Kidd Workshop, and then moved to Spain, where he worked as an ESL teacher for a few 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. His short story, “She Used to Steal Horses” appears in Epoch Magazine’s 71:1 edition.

His first novel, Tourniquet, is forthcoming.