Chana Porter is a novelist, playwright, teacher, MacDowell fellow, and cofounder of The Octavia Project, a STEM and writing program for girls and trans and nonbinary youth that uses speculative fiction to envision greater possibilities for our world.
Her debut novel The Seep was an ABA Indie Next Pick, Open Letters Best Science Fiction, Fantasy Book of 2020, a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and a Times (UK) Best Sci-fi Book of 2021. Her most recent novel, The Thick and The Lean, was an Amazon Editor’s Pick, Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and named Best Sci-Fi of 2023 by The Times.