About the Author
Andrew Porter
Andrew Porter is the author of the story collections The Disappeared (Knopf) and The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage) and the novels In Between Days (Knopf) and The Imagined Life (Knopf). 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, Ploughshares, American Short Fiction, Best American Short Stories, and on Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. Currently, he teaches fiction writing and directs the creative writing program at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
The Masters Review Best Emerging
Writers 2025
Hopes and hauntings, uncertain futures faced with determination: This anthology has it all. The Masters Review’s Best Emerging Writers 2025 features ten short stories and essays from promising writers around the world, selected by guest judge Andrew Porter. “Every one of [these stories and essays] will delight you, surprise you,” Porter writes in his introduction. “In the face of whatever uncertainty people might be feeling in their lives right now, the art being made during this time is very affirming… if for no other reason than the fact that it is so very good.”