Andrew Porter is the author of the novels The Imagined Life (Knopf, 2025) and In Between Days and the story collections The Disappeared and The Theory of Light and Matter. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has received the the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and a Pushcart Prize, and his work is cited in “100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2007” by Best American Short Stories. Porter lives in San Antonio, where he is an associate professor of English and the director of the creative writing program at Trinity University.
Photo credit: Chris Krajcer.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Victor, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2025
- Patisserie, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2022–2023
- Jimena, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2019–2020
- Cello, a short story, in Stories of the Week: 2016–2017
- In Between Days, a novel excerpt, in Stories of the Week: 2011–2012