Terek Hopkins was born and raised in Cambria, California, just south of Big Sur. He spent most of his childhood exploring the outdoors. He studied Creative Writing at the University of Oregon, where he was accepted into the Nancy Kidd Writer’s Workshop.

After graduating, he moved to Catalonia, Spain where he worked as an English teacher for two years. He worked on a cattle ranch when he got back, and as a bartender, and has always done his best to live near a large body of water.

His fiction has appeared in Connotation Press, The Normal School, Hawaii Pacific Review, and Colombia Journal, among others. His short story, “She Used to Steal Horses” appears in Epoch Magazine’s 71:1 edition. His first novel, Tourniquet, is forthcoming.