Terence A. Harkin

Terence A. Harkin earned a BA in English-American Literature from Brown University while spending weekends touring New England with bands that opened for The Yardbirds, the Critters and Jimi Hendrix. His play Resurrection was a winner of the Production Workshop Playwriting Contest. In the US Air Force, he served with Detachment 3 of the 601st Photo Flight at Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand, the setting for The Big Buddha Bicycle Race, winner of a 2020 Silver Medal in Literary Fiction from the Military Writers Society of America. The sequel, In the Year of the Rabbit, which is set for release in September, 2021, is set in Ubon and the mountains of Laos.

Terence won a CBS Fellowship for his screenwriting while completing an MFA at the University of Southern California and went on to spend twenty-five years as a Hollywood cameraman. His credits include Goodbye Girl, The Legend of Billy Jean, Quincy, Designing Women, Seinfeld, Tracy Ullman, MASH, and From Here to Eternity. Working as a cameraman on MASH and the six-hour mini-series of From Here to Eternity had a powerful effect--in both style and scope--on the writing of Big Buddha and Year of the Rabbit, wartime love stories filled with the possibility of healing and redemption from the traumas of love and war.

You can find more about Terence A. Harkin at: www.taharkin.net and https://www.facebook.com/taharkin