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Regina Porter

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Regina Porter is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. She is the recipient of a 2017-2018 Rae Armour West Postgraduate Scholarship. She is also a 2017 Tin House Scholar. Her fiction has been published in The Harvard Review. An award-winning writer with a background in playwriting, Porter has worked with Playwrights Horizons, the Joseph Papp Theater, New York Stage and Film, the Women’s Project, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and Horizon Theatre Company. She has been anthologized in Plays from Woolly Mammoth by Broadway Play Services and Heinemann’s Scenes for Women by Women. She has also been profiled in Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in History and Criticism from the University of Alabama Pr ...more

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“It’s the little cruelties that get you,” she told him. “Never the big hurts, the pains you can point to, and say, ‘Oh, I see this bruise,’ but the wounds that you can’t even tell are there until one day you are eating a bowl of fennel soup or sunbathing on the deck of the pool and you can’t move, you can’t do anything, because you think, Well, something is dead in me, what has been done to me, and why did I allow this to happen? And now, and now, and now…”
Regina Porter, The Travelers

“Nadine's got a mean streak and she loves you too much to leave this world."

"Cousin Julian, I'm not going to even get into the science of that statement."

"See, that's the problem with your generation. You're too cerebral in all the wrong ways.”
Regina Porter, The Rich People Have Gone Away

“There should be a policy in this country about how nurses go to work. I don't get how you prance in off the street wearing a nurse's uniform after riding the subway and wash your hands and care for someone.”
Regina Porter

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