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Porter Yelton

Porter  Yelton

Porter Yelton

MFA in Creative Writing Student
He/him

yelton.13@osu.edu

Denney Hall 449

Areas of Expertise

  • Creative Writing (fiction)

Education

  • BA, English, New York University, 2018

Porter Yelton holds a BA in English and American Literature from New York University with a minor in Creative Writing. From 2018-2021, he served as a Global Writing and Speaking Fellow at NYU Shanghai. He is a fiction writer and MFA candidate whose work focuses on translation, China’s rural-to-urban migrations, and queerness.