Thomas Israel Hopkins’s stories have appeared or are forthcoming in the print magazines and lit journals Fence, River Styx, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Indiana Review, Sonora Review, The L Magazine, One Story, Quick Fiction, and Opium Magazine; the online lit journals (and online editions of journals) Yankee Pot Roast, failbetter.com, Conjunctions, and Pindeldyboz; and in the anthology Homewrecker: An Adultery Reader. He has also written for Bookforum, Poets & Writers, and the Los Angeles Times. He has been a fellow at the Albee Foundation and the Ucross Foundation, and is a graduate of NYU’s Creative Writing Program, the fiction faculty of which nominated his work for the 2007 edition of the Best New American Voices anthology.