Andrew Porter

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Andrew Porter is  the author of the short story collection The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage/Random House), which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and the novel In Between Days (Alfred A. Knopf), which was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and an IndieBound “Indie Next” selection. Foreign editions and translations of Porter’s books have also been published in the UK, France, The Netherlands, Korea, Bulgaria and Australia. His short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Pushcart Prize XXXIIPloughsharesOne Story, The Southern Review, The Threepenny Review, Narrative MagazineEpoch, Prairie Schooner, and on NPR’s Selected Shorts. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently a Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Trinity University.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Short Stories 2019*

Pushcart (Fiction) 2019*

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