A graduate of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Andrew Porter has received a Pushcart prize, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship, and the W. K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts. His award-winning fiction has appeared in One Story, Epoch, The Threepenny Review, and on NPR’s Selected Stories. He teaches at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Porter is the author of The Theory of Light and Matter, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.