Andrew Porter is the author of the story collection “The Theory of Light and Matter,” which won the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and will be republished in paperback by Vintage/Knopf in January 2010.

His collection also received Foreword Magazine’s 2008 “Book of the Year” Award for Short Fiction, was a finalist for The Steven Turner Award, The Paterson Prize and The 2009 WLT Book Award, was longlisted for The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and was selected by both The Kansas City Star and The San Antonio Express-News as one of the Best Books of 2008.

Marilynne Robinson said that “Andrew Porter’s fiction is thoughtful, lucid and highly controlled. It is especially striking for the strong consistency of vision that is achieved in every story. He has the kind of voice one can accept as universal — honest and grave, with transparency as its adornment.” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution called his book “a luminous collection … Porter’s use of poetic yet plainspoken language and his thoughtful consideration of the fractured American family place his writing in direct dialogue with the work of John Cheever and Raymond Carver.”

His fiction has appeared in One Story, Epoch, The Ontario Review, Prairie Schooner, The Antioch Review, StoryQuarterly, The Threepenny Review, Others Voices, Story and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, among others. He has also had his work read on NPR’s “Selected Shorts” and selected as one of the 100 Distinguished Stories of 2007 by Best American Short Stories.

A graduate of Vassar College and the Iowa Writers Workshop, Porter lives in San Antonio, where he is an assistant professor of creative writing at Trinity University.

Visit him online at www.andrewporterwriter.com.