Andrew J. Porter (born 1972 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American short story writer.
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Andrew Porter graduated from Vassar College, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Currently, Porter lives in San Antonio, Texas, where he is an Associate Professor of English at Trinity University.
His debut short story collection, The Theory of Light and Matter, won the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and was republished in 2010 by Vintage Books/Random House. His fiction has appeared in publications such as One Story, Epoch (magazine), The Ontario Review, Prairie Schooner, The Antioch Review, StoryQuarterly, The Threepenny Review, Others Voices, Story (magazine) and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. He appeared on NPR's Selected Shorts. Selected to "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2007" for Best American Short Stories by Stephen King. Foreign editions and translations of The Theory of Light and Matter have been published in France, The Netherlands, Korea, Bulgaria, Australia and The United Kingdom.