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Tom Hopkins

(he/him/his)

  • Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing

Areas of Study

Education

  • MFA, creative writing, fiction; New York University; 2005
  • AB, cum laude, English, Harvard University, 1993

Biography

My short fiction has been published in the Massachusetts Review, Fence, Cincinnati Review, Indiana Review, One Story, and about two dozen other publications. I have also written for Bookforum, Tablet, and Poets & Writers, as well as a number of alumni magazines and other university publications.

I鈥檝e taught writing to high school students at Sarah Lawrence College, graduate students at Columbia University鈥檚 creative writing program, working adults at the Gotham Writers鈥 Workshop, and undergraduates at New York University, Smith College, and Yale University.

Among other honors, I鈥檝e been a finalist for the Calvino Prize, the Barry Hannah Prize in Fiction, and Southeast Review鈥檚 World鈥檚 Best Short-Short Story Contest. I was runner-up in the 2012 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and I鈥檝e held residencies at the Albee Foundation and the Ucross Foundation.

As a musician and actor, I鈥檝e busked in the French Quarter, opened for Patti Smith and Sleepy LaBeef. I have performed in basements, coffeeshops, abandoned warehouses, and bars from Northampton to Oregon, San Francisco to Chapel Hill, and one legitimate theater in Moscow.

As a writer and editor, I鈥檓 interested in chapbooks and small presses, formal experimentation, and hoaxes and false documents. My limited-edition, self-published book the Year of Living Autobiographically was an Oulipean experiment in social media, self-publishing, and the gift economy.

Spring 2026

Chronicles of Crisis Foretold 鈥 CRWR 248

Lyric Essay 鈥 CRWR 341

Creative Writing Capstone Seminar 鈥 CRWR 490

Fall 2026

False Documents: Fiction, Fakery, and Other Falsehoods 鈥 CRWR 273

Lyric Essay 鈥 CRWR 341

  • 2015: 鈥淭his Is a Test of the System,鈥 The Massachusetts Review v. 56 #1
  • 2014: 鈥淭he Mohel Mulligan,鈥 the Chicago Tribune鈥檚 Printers Row Journal
  • 2013: 鈥淭he Way the Water All Agrees on a River鈥 and 鈥淎n Obstacle to Empathy,鈥 BOMB Magazine #124
  • 2012: 鈥淥ur Libretto Conundrum,鈥 鈥淭he Songs Our Local Birds Always Sing,鈥 and 鈥淐atching the Rollers,鈥 the Cincinnati Review #8.2
  • 2011: 鈥淲hat I Remember of My Love Affair with the Bird,鈥 Fence #8.2
  • 2010: 鈥淓lephants of the Platte,鈥 Lady Churchill鈥檚 Rosebud Wristlet #25
  • 2009: 鈥淭he Man in the Moon Is a Lawyer,鈥 Indiana Review #31.2

Notes

Tom Hopkins Finialist for 2024 New American Fiction Prize

Senior Lecturer of Creative Writing Tom Hopkins was a finalist for the , for his manuscript The Obligations of the Morning. Previously, the manuscript was a longlist honoree for the Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction. An earlier draft was selected as a finalist for the Noemi Press Prose Award.

Tom Hopkins publishes chapbook of stories

, a chapbook collection of short fiction by Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing Tom Hopkins, was published on November 20 by The Cupboard Pamphlet, a small press based in Denver and Cleveland. Three of the five writers who wrote advance praise for the book are 91直播 alumni: Gary Shteyngart 鈥95, Matthew Sharpe 鈥85, and Abbey Mei Otis 鈥11.