This month’s Utter Reading Series features two standouts from a couple hours south on I-35. Both teach at Trinity University in San Antonio, and both are long-overdue candidates for the Utter Series, which spotlights hot Texas-based writers. One has just won a national award for his short stories, and the other is an Austin-bred recent graduate of the Michener Center at UT. After the reading, join the writers at Opal Divine’s on Sixth for drinks and conversation.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Andrew Porter currently lives in San Antonio, where he teaches creative writing at Trinity University. He is the author of a short story collection, The Theory of Light and Matter, which won the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award and will be published in Fall 2008. His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including The Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses, One Story, Epoch, and the Ontario Review, among others.

A former James Michener Fellow in Poetry, Jenny Browne's most recent collection of poems, The Second Reason, was just published this fall by the University of Tampa Press. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Writer's League of Texas and the San Antonio Artist Foundation, and has new work recently published or forthcoming in Sentence, The Cincinnati Review, The Southeast Review and Agni. She lives in San Antonio where she teaches creative writing at Trinity University.

You can check out some of Browne’s poetry here.