Porter Fox

Porter Fox was born in New York and raised on the coast of Maine. He lives, writes, teaches, and edits the award-winning literary travel writing journal Nowhere in Upstate New York. He graduated with an MFA in fiction from The New School in 2004 and teaches at Columbia University School of the Arts. His fiction, essays and nonfiction have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Outside, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Time, CNN, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Men’s Journal, National Geographic Adventure, Powder, Narrative, The Literary Review, Northwest Review, Third Coast and Conjunctions, among others.

Additional books by Fox include THE LAST WINTER: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World was published by Little Brown (11/2/21). His book Northland: A 4,000-Mile Journey Along America’s Forgotten Border was published by W.W. Norton July 3, 2018, and DEEP: The Story of Skiing and the Future of Snow.