Porter's essay "Labyrinth" (Passages North 2014) was listed as Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2015. "How to Survive the Dinner Table" (Chautauqua 2015) was listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016. Her book manuscript Down the Tracks was a finalist for the Santa Fe Writers Project Nonfiction Book Award in 2013. Porter's poetry and essays have been published in magazines including Passages North, 2RiverView, Ilanot Review, The Meadow, The Progressive, AGNI, Diner, Cimarron Review, Barrow Street, Pedestal Magazine, and the anthologies What Wildness is this: Women Write About the Southwest (University of Texas Press: Austin, 2007), and Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). Porter’s personal essay “In Plainview” (Cimarron Review 2005) was designated a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2006.
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