August 2024

Moonshine Ink. Annual contest. Second Place, Best Reader-Generated Campaign for Uniquely First.

"Porter shared her many firsts, probably inspiring readers to collect their own memories of firsts...the story made the vintage '80s photos even more interesting..."

February 2024

Poem in Loss — Lifespan Vol. 9, Pure Slush books. Print only.

Prose poem about sudden infant death.

April 2023

Personal essay in Moonshine Ink Newspaper. Print and online.

First-person account of driving West from New York to California in 1980 with her best friend, Mona.

April 2020

Personal essay in Freeflow Institute. Online only.

Witness to a middle-of-the-night rockslide camping in the Gates of Lodore, Green River, Utah, while participating in a four-day writer’s workshop.

September 2017

Poem in Clover, A Literary Rag, Vol. 14. Print only.

Metaphorical reflection after the 2016 election.

March 2016

Personal Essay in Manifest Station/On Being Human. Online only.

Trigger warning: sexual assault.

A personal account of being raped after moving west.

April 2014

Top 25 in Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Contest for “How to Spend the Weekend with Your Parents. 1970.”