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This novel is about two African American women, Agnes Miller Christie and Eloise Delaney, and their lives that intersect over six decades. The story begins in Georgia in the 1960s and follows the women as they grow up, experience racial violence, and become involved in other people's lives.
A Savannah, Georgia, native, Porter was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a recipient of a 2017-2018 Rae Armour West Postgraduate Scholarship, and a 2017 Tin House Scholar. She has a background in playwriting and has been anthologized in Plays From Woolly Mammoth by Broadway Play Services and Heinemann’s Scenes for Women by Women. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.