
Michael Hopkins is the first-place winner of the Wisconsin People & Ideas 2018 Fiction Contest and the third-place winner of the 2019 Fiction Contest. Hopkins lives on a small farm in Neenah, Wisconsin, with his wife and their dog, cats, and chickens. His book and music criticism have appeared in Philadelphia Weekly and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and his short fiction has appeared in Millwork, Pleiades, and 365tomorrows.