ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Terence Hawkins is the author of two novels and many short stories and essays. His first story, "The Minnow Files," was published in Ape Culture in 2000. His first novel, The Rage of Achilles was published in 2009, followed by American Neolithic, which was named a Best Book of 2014 by Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus called it "a towering work of speculative fiction." Hawkins' writing is driven as much by idea as character and incorporates elements of history, philosophy, speculative fiction, and science. His work was recently recognized with an entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Hawkins grew up in Uniontown, PA, the former coal town famously featured in both Philipp Meyer's American Rust and the original "Night of the Living Dead." He attended Yale University, where he majored in history and served as publisher of the Yale Daily News. Later, Hawkins received a JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School. In 2011, he founded the Yale Writers' Conference and now runs the Company of Writers, offering workshops and manuscript services to writers at all levels of experience. In 2018, Hawkins became a mentor in Visible Ink, a creative writing program for cancer survivors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital