Porter Huddleston is the Pushcart Prize-nominated winner of the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, and a two-time winner in the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition 2021 (for humor and creative nonfiction). He was a finalist in the 2020 Orison Anthology Award in Nonfiction, the New Millennium Award for Nonfiction, the OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction, and the 2021 Cascade Writing Awards (for middle grade fiction and flash fiction). He has been honored by Writers of the Future and Writer’s Digest for his short fiction and personal essays, and recognized for his debut coming-of-age literary fantasy novel. Readers can find his nonfiction work in Fathom Magazine, Ruminate Magazine, the Flying South 2020 anthology, and Hippocampus Magazine, where an abridged version of “What Strange Light the Setting Sun” first appeared.