Theory of Light and Matter

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Andrew Porter has received a Pushcart Prize, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship, and was nominated for the Frank O'Connor InternationalShort Story Award. His work has appeared in One Story, The Threepenny Review, and on NPR'sSelected Shorts. He teaches at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

"Andrew Porter's fiction is thoughtful, lucid and highly controlled ... He has the kind of voice one can accept as universal - honest and grave, with transparency as its adornment" -- Marilynne Robinson "An exquisite collection... [With] hard-won grit and imagination to spare" Time Out New York "A true master of the short story, a writer of honesty and plainspoken poetry who knows the human soul in all its light and shadow and harnesses every sentence to the purpose of revealing it" -- Kevin Brockmeier "Luminous ... Porter's writing [is] in direct dialogue with the work of John Cheever and Raymond Carver ... A memorable debut that honors the history of the short story form while blazing a new trajectory all its own" Atlanta Journal-Constitution