Monica Porter (born Mónika Halász) is a London-based journalist whose writing frequently centers on her Hungarian background.

[2] Monica Porter grew up first in the Bronx, New York City, and later in the suburb of Hartsdale, where she attended Woodlands High School.

In 1970 she moved to London, England, in order to study acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

In the early 1990s, she made a series of Personal View broadcasts for the English-language BBC World Service.

Deadly Carousel tells the story of Porter's mother, Vali Rácz, who saved the lives of several Jewish people during the Nazi occupation of Hungary in 1944.