Steven R. Porter is a writer, blogger, marketing consultant and the former Director of Advertising and Public Relations for Lauriat's Bookstores, Inc. Steven is also a frequent speaker and lecturer on Internet technologies, new publishing techniques, and, of course, his novels.

In 2011, Steven founded the Association of Rhode Island Authors to help bring awareness to many talented writers in the area. He serves as the organization's first president.

Steven studied writing and communications at the University of Rhode island in the late Eighties where he served as editor of the campus literary magazine, The Great Swamp Gazette.

The critcally accliamed Confessions of the Meek and the Valiant was his first novel.

He and his wife Dawn are active volunteers in their local community and reside in the village of Harmony, Rhode Island with their two children Thomas and Susannah.