Maximilian Hawker

Maximilian Hawker works in frontline children's social care in Croydon, where he lives with his wife and two children; he also studies for an MA in Social Work at the University of Greenwich and does work in partnership with the charity OCD Action. He has been a sufferer of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) since he was a child. In April 2018, his debut novel, Breaking The Foals, was published by Unbound. He has had poetry and short stories - occasionally nominated for awards - appear in...See more

Maximilian Hawker works in frontline children's social care in Croydon, where he lives with his wife and two children; he also studies for an MA in Social Work at the University of Greenwich and does work in partnership with the charity OCD Action. He has been a sufferer of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) since he was a child. In April 2018, his debut novel, Breaking The Foals, was published by Unbound. He has had poetry and short stories - occasionally nominated for awards - appear in publications run by Dog Horn Publishing, Kingston University Press, Arachne Press and Rebel Poetry, among others. He holds an MA by Research in English Literature from Kingston University, where he also studied at undergraduate level, and has previously worked in editing and education. Twitter: @MaxHawker / Website: ... See less