Porter at the 2023 Texas Book Festival.

Andrew J. Porter is an American short story writer.

Life

Porter was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Vassar College, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Currently, Porter lives in San Antonio, Texas, where he is Professor of English at Trinity University and Director of the Creative Writing Program.

His debut short story collection, The Theory of Light and Matter, won the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and was republished in 2010 by Vintage Books/Random House. He is also the author of the novel In Between Days (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012), which was selected for the Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" series, and the short story collection The Disappeared (Alfred A. Knopf), which was published in 2023. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as One Story, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Southern Review, Epoch (magazine), Narrative Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, Colorado Review, Story (magazine), Electric Literature, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. He appeared on NPR's Selected Shorts. His short stories have been awarded a Pushcart Prize and twice selected as a Distinguished Story of the Year by Best American Short Stories. Foreign editions and translations of The Theory of Light and Matter, In Between Days, and The Disappeared have been published in France, The Netherlands, Korea, Bulgaria, Argentina, Australia and The United Kingdom.

Awards

  • 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award
  • 2008 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award
  • 2004 W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts from Vassar College
  • James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship from the James Michener/Copernicus Society of America
  • 2009 Drake Emerging Writer Award from Drake University
  • 2012 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection
  • Iowa Teaching/Writing Fellowship from the University of Iowa
  • Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee' Writers' Conference
  • Residency Fellowship from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
  • Glenna Luschei Award
  • Pushcart Prize
  • The 2008 Artist Foundation of San Antonio Literary Arts Award

Works

Further reading

  • Art at Our Doorstep: San Antonio Writers and Artists featuring Andrew Porter. Edited by Nan Cuba and Riley Robinson (Trinity University Press, 2008).

References

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