Andrew J. Porter

For other people named Andrew Porter, see Andrew Porter (disambiguation).

Andrew J. Porter is an American short story writer.

Andrew J. Porter
Porter at the 2023 Texas Book Festival
Born	Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation	Short story writer
Nationality	American
Education	Vassar College Iowa Writers' Workshop
Notable awards	Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (2007) Pushcart Prize
Website
www.andrewporterwriter.com

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 and long listed for The Story Prize. His short fiction has appeared in publications such as One Story, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, The Southern Review, Epoch (magazine), Narrative Magazine, American Short Fiction, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, 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
• 2012 San Antonio Express News's Fictional Work of the Year
• Longlisted for The Story Prize
• Shortlisted for the William Saroyan Prize at Stanford University
• Iowa Teaching/Writing Fellowship from the University of Iowa
• Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee' Writers' Conference
• Residency Fellowship from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation
• Pushcart Prize
• Glenna Luschei Award
• Discoveries selection by The Los Angeles Times
• Indiebound Indie Next selection
• The 2008 Artist Foundation of San Antonio Literary Arts Award

Works

• The Theory of Light and Matter published in 2008 by the University of Georgia Press. In 2010 it was republished in paperback by Vintage Books/Penguin Random House
• In Between Days published in 2012 by Alfred A. Knopf/Random House
• The Disappeared Alfred A. Knopf (2023)

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

• Andrew Porter's Official website
• Pushcart Prize reading onSelected Shorts
• Trinity University English Department
• Profile in San Antonio Express-News
• Profile at Houston CultureMap
• Profile in Houston Magazine
• One Story Page for "Azul"
• The Guardian review of In Between Days
• Largehearted Boy: Book Notes
• The Christian Science Monitor on The Theory of Light and Matter