Publications & Awards

  • Best Reader-Generated Campaign

    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..."

  • Cry of the Soul

    February 2024

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

    Prose poem about sudden infant death.

  • Uniquely First

    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.

    Read It Here

  • Rockslide

    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.

    Read It Here

  • Daily Progress

    September 2017

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

    Metaphorical reflection after the 2016 election.

  • Five Things I Remember About Being Raped

    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.

    Read It Here

  • Very Short Fiction Award

    April 2014

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

    See Award Here