Michael Agugom is an Instructional Assistant in the Department of English, Texas State University. He is a W. Morgan and Lou Claire Rose Fellow and has been awarded the L.D. Clark & LaVerne Harrell Clark Literary Endowment Scholarship and the Texas State University Liberal Arts–Graduate College Scholarship. He is a recipient of a 2018 Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award and was shortlisted for the 2017 Short Story Day Africa Prize. His debut novel manuscript was longlisted for the DzancBooks Diverse Voices Prize. He has had nonfiction published in Prairie Schooner, and fiction published in The Cantabrigian Magazine, Your Impossible Voice, Queer Africa 2: New Stories, ID Anthology: Short Story Day Africa, Capra Review, and other places. He lives in San Marcos, Texas.
Writers he admires: Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Jenny Offill, Olga Torkarczuk, Chinua Achebe.
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Porter House Reads: Halloween Edition
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Porter House Reads: Quarantine Edition
Caught up in the everyday dread and surreality of life in quarantine, it can be hard to remember the beauty of our past lives or the small joys the world has to offer in the strangest, most idiosyncratic ways.
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Porter House Reads: Writing Rituals & Superstitions
On four notable occasions, I have finished writing for the day only to find the climaxes of my stories rearing their Hydra heads in my life. This has involved tornadoes, apartment-ruining fires, and other calamitous events. So, needless to say, there are some stories that I have vowed never to write.
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2019 Pushcart Prize Nominations
The editorial staff here at Porter House Review couldn’t be more excited to celebrate our nominees for the 2019 Pushcart Prize. While PHR celebrates publishing every piece of poetry, prose, and art that our wonderful contributors submitted over the past year, please join us in congratulating these exceptional artists and writers.
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Porter House Reads: Favorite Latina/o/x Artists
Porter House Review editors recommend their favorite Latina/o/x artists, including Fernando A. Flores, Richard Rodriguez, and Valeria Luiselli.