Background
Porter was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Porter was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
He graduated from Vassar College, and the Iowa Writers" hop.
Currently, Porter lives in San Antonio, Texas, where he is an Associate Professor of English at Trinity University and directs the creative writing program 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. He appeared on National Public Radio"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, of Korea, Bulgaria, Australia and The United Kingdom.
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.
