Jeremy Hawkins is an American screenwriter, novelist, editor, and teacher. His debut novel The Last Days of Video was published in 2015 by Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint Press. The book was an Indie Next Pick and received a Kirkus Starred Review. 

Jeremy’s first feature screenplay Fergus was a semifinalist for both the Nicholl Fellowship from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as the Austin Film Festival Script Competition. He has also placed as a semifinalist with other scripts in the PAGE International Screenwriting Competition and Scriptapalooza, which is all pretty fancy. 

Jeremy’s fiction and nonfiction writing has appeared at Electric Literature, Barrelhouse, Diagram, Pacifica, The Molotov Cocktail, and many other venues. Over the last decade, he has been awarded numerous fellowships and residencies, but could always do with more.

He holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the founder and lead editor of The Distillery, a web-based editing service, and he has taught creative writing at the high school, university, and continuing education levels.

Jeremy was born and raised in North Carolina. He lives in Florence, Italy.