Terence Hawkins is an author of idea-driven fiction, humor, book reviews, and essays. His first book, The Rage of Achilles, was described as “moving with the force of a cyclone” by Historical Novels Review. His next, American Neolithic, was named a Year’s Best by Kirkus Reviews, which called it “a towering work of speculative fiction.” Booklist compared his short story collection Turing’s Graveyard—also a Kirkus Year’s Best—to the Twilight Zone. His work has been recognized with an entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

In 2011 he conceived the Yale Writers’ Conference. Over the next four years he grew it into a three-week event embracing multiple genres and hundreds of participants from every continent but Antarctica. Its faculty included Colm Toibin, Julia Glass, Nicholson Baker, Tom Perrotta, and Colum McCann. He now directs the Company of Writers, offering workshops, editorial services, and manuscript consultations to writers at every stage of their careers.

From 2018 through 2020 he was Prose Editor of the Blue Mountain Review. He now serves as Literary Editor of All Things Tudor: The Magazine. Since 2018, he’s served as a volunteer mentor in Visible Ink, a creative writing program for cancer survivors at Memorial Sloane Kettering in New York, and he also runs pro-bono workshops for writers through the libraries of Bridgeport, Norwalk, and Rocky Hill in Connecticut.

He grew up in western Pennsylvania and studied history at Yale, where he was also publisher of the Yale Daily News. He lives in Connecticut.