Name Andrew Porter | Role Short story writer | |
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Books The Theory of Light and Matter, In Between Days Education Vassar College, Lancaster Country Day School Awards Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction | ||
Andrew J. Porter is an American short story writer.
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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 an Associate Professor of English at Trinity University and directs 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. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as One Story, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Epoch (magazine), Narrative Magazine, Prairie Schooner, The Antioch Review, StoryQuarterly, The Ontario Review, Story (magazine) and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. He appeared on NPR's Selected Shorts. Selected to "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2007" for Best American Short Stories by Stephen King. Foreign editions and translations of The Theory of Light and Matter and In Between Days have been published in France, The Netherlands, Korea, Bulgaria, Australia and The United Kingdom.