Tim Hawkins

Rockford, MI 49341
Phone: 
616-443-0361

Author's Bio

Tim Hawkins has lived and traveled widely throughout North America, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America, where he has worked as a journalist, technical writer, communications manager and teacher in international schools. His career also has taken some interesting detours into such posts as salmon cannery slime table worker, stevedore, nose-hair clipper model and cram school teacher. After spending much of the '90's and '00's abroad, he currently lives in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan. His writing has appeared in numerous print and online publications over the past decade. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2011, 2017), Best of the Net (2018) and Best Microfiction (2018), and served as preliminary judge for the 47th Annual Dyer-Ives Poetry Competition (2015) judged by Mark Doty. His poetry collection, Wanderings at Deadline, was published in 2012 by Aldrich Press. Find out more at his website: www.timhawkinspoetry.com

Publications and Prizes

Prizes Won: 
Nominated in 2011 and 2017 for a Pushcart Prize.Nominated for Best of the Net (2018)Nominated for Best Microfiction (2018)

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now: 
Poetry Notebook by Clive James
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Boswell's Life of Johnson by James Boswell
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Who We Are and How We Got Here - Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past by David Reich
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Original Wisdom - Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing by Robert Wolff
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Like by A.E. Stallings
Favorite Books: 
Angle of Repose, Aztec, Birds of America, The Brothers Karamazov, Cannery Row, David Copperfield, The Deptford Trilogy, The Duino Elegies, Geek Love, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, An Instance of the Fingerpost, The Magus, Moby-Dick, The Naked and the Dead, Notes from Underground, The Redundancy of Courage, To Have and Have Not, Tropic of Cancer, Watership Down
Favorite Authors: 
Russell Banks, Charles Bukowski, Hayden Carruth, John Cheever, Jim Crace, Anton Chekhov, Emily Dickinson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Federico Garcia Lorca, Thomas Hardy, Jim Harrison, Joseph Heller, Zbigniew Herbert, Kazuo Ishiguro, Lorrie Moore, Alice Munro, Vladimir Nabakov, Rainer Maria Rilke, Richard Russo, Robert Stone, Wisława Szymborska, James Wright, Richard Yates

More Information

Listed as: 
Poet
Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Other
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
Spanish
Born in: 
Twenty-Nine Palms, CA
Raised in: 
Grand Rapids, MI
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Last updated: Apr 07, 2019