Jeff Porter is the author of the memoir Oppenheimer Is Watching Me (University of Iowa Press, 2007). His essays appear in Antioch Review, Isotope, Northwest Review, Shenandoah, Missouri Review, Hotel Amerika, Wilson Quarterly, Contemporary Literature, among other journals. With Patricia Foster, he is co-editor of Understanding the Essay, forthcoming from Broadview Press. Porter is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Iowa.