Antonio J. Hopson is a multi-talented writer, teacher, and father based in Seattle, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington with a degree in Environmental Science and currently teaches biology at Lakeside Middle School in Seattle. Although he pursued a degree in science, his love for writing, especially poetry, has always been a constant in his life.

Antonio's writing has been featured in various publications, including speculative fiction, flash fiction, essays, and poetry. He was a 2016 Pushcart Nominee and has been the recipient of several awards, including a Reader's Choice Award from Farmhouse Magazine and a finalist for the EPIC e-book Award. His collection of poetry, Seven, published in 2016, spent three weeks at #1 on Amazon's Hot New Releases list.

Apart from writing, Antonio is also a man of many hobbies. He loves to paint, cook, play ping pong, and go scuba diving in the chilly waters of Puget Sound. He is also an avid sailor and enjoys navigating the sound in his Youngquist Viking, M.V. Bold Venture.

Antonio was born and raised in South Seattle and now resides north of the city in Shoreline, WA, with his family. He remains an inspiration to his students and an ardent advocate of creativity, critical thinking, and the power of the written word.

Antonio J. Hopson

“He wrote the book [Global Warming] in first-person, which was incredibly challenging, as he learned the hard way!” —Norelle Done, Seattle Wrote

Antonio spins gentle legends and quiet love stories. From biker goddesses to mythical tricksters, from feuding winds to debauched taverns, [his stories] reveal the author's romantic enchantment with the world around him, even when it's at its grittiest.  

— The Harrow, Dru Pagliassotti, Editor in Chief,

Instead of cannons, Antonio J. Hopson uses words as his weapon of choice in the poetry collection Seven, and that for the most part focuses on a love affair. Amazingly, his use of words gives the impression that this affair—at least for him—resembles the carnage of the Crusades… Hopson is a poet of promise… I wanted to have witnessed this fire in more of the poems in this collection. I look forward to reading more of his work as he, and the rest of us, navigate this life (which can be of carnage at times) with the light of words.

 —Elvis Alves, The Compulsive Reader

“A flash fiction writer turns to poetry and speaks of biting love seen in a cosmic light.”

—Washington Independent Review of Books: “July 2015 Exemplars: Poetry Reviews by Grace Cavalieri”

Awards

Winner of the Farmhouse Reader's Choice Award,  Finalist "Best Short Story Anthology" EPIC Award, Featured Writer at Hugo House and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu’s, Exquisite Corpse, 2016 Pushcart Nominee.