Chana Porter

About The Author

Chana Porter is an emerging playwright, speculative novelist, and education activist. Their plays have been developed or produced at a wide range of local theaters. Chana is a MacDowell Fellow and is currently writer-in-residence at The Catastrophic Theatre in Houston. Chana has taught their embodied creativity course Writing from the Body at University of Houston, Fordham University, Hampshire College, Goddard College, and more. Their debut novel, The Seep, was published by Soho Press and Brilliance Audio with starred reviews and was an ABA Indie Next Pick for February 2020. Chana is a queer Jewish genderfluid alien grateful to be embodied in human form. Pronouns: She/They.

Books by Chana Porter

The Thick and the Lean
By Chana Porter
In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God.But Beatrice Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden: butter, flambé, marzipan. As Seagate takes increasingly extreme measures to regulate every calorie its citizens consume, Beatrice must make a choice: giv...
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The Seep
By Chana Porter
Plus never-before-seen short story featuring an expanded ending to the novel...Trina Goldberg-Oneka is a fifty-year-old trans woman whose life is irreversibly altered in the wake of a gentle—but nonetheless world-changing—invasion by an alien entity called The Seep. Through The Seep, everything i...
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