Porter Huddleston was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for his award-winning work "The Foundation Above Us" about growing up in Arkansas and the life-saving power of one sibling's love for another. He is the winner of the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize and a two-time winner in the Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition. He has been a finalist in the Orison Anthology Award in Nonfiction, the New Millennium Award for Nonfiction, the OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction, and the Cascade Writing Awards. He was also honored by Writers of the Future and Writer’s Digest for his short fiction and personal essays. Readers can find a sampling of his nonfiction in Ruminate Magazine and the Flying South 2020 anthology, available on Amazon.