Bio
Porter Shreve was born and grew up in Washington, DC. He spent several years in Chicago and currently lives in West Lafayette, Indiana, with his two children and his wife Bich Minh Nguyen, author of the memoir, Stealing Buddha's Dinner and the novel, Short Girls.
Shreve's first novel, The Obituary Writer, was a 2000 New York Times Notable Book and a Borders Original Voices selection. His second novel, Drives Like a Dream, was a 2005 Chicago Tribune Book of the Year and a People "Great Reads" selection. And his third novel, When the White House Was Ours, was a 2008 Chicago Tribune Book of the Year and a Reading Group Choices featured selection. He is working on a new novel based in part on a classic work of American fiction and set in Chicago of both the present day and the early 1900s.
Shreve has coedited six anthologies and published fiction, nonfiction, Op-Eds and book reviews in many journals, magazines and newspapers, including Witness, Northwest Review, Salon, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post and the New York Times. He has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Oregon, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and he currently directs the Creative Writing Program at Purdue University.