British · b. 1987
Max Porter writes grief into strange new shapes. "Grief Is the Thing with Feathers" (2015) brought Ted Hughes's Crow into a mourning family; "Lanny" (2019), shortlisted for the Booker Prize, follows a missing village boy through multiple voices including the ancient spirit Dead Papa Toothwort. Porter worked as an editor at Granta Books; his fiction carries an editor's economy and a poet's freedom. He refuses conventional form while delivering emotional impact.