Andrew Porter is the author of the story collections The Disappeared (Knopf, 2023) and The Theory of Light and Matter (University of Georgia Press, 2008) and the novel In Between Days (Knopf, 2012). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he has received a Pushcart Prize, a James Michener-Copernicus Fellowship, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in One Story, the Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, Narrative, the Southern Review, and on Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. Currently, he teaches at Trinity University.