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Thomas Israel Hopkins

Stories by Thomas Israel Hopkins have appeared in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud WristletThe Cincinnati ReviewFence, and One Story, among other publications. A chapbook of his short fiction, What I Remember of My Love Affair with the Bird and Other Stories, was published by the Cupboard Pamphlet in 2020. Hopkins lives in Oberlin, Ohio, with his wife and their two sons.