{"id":1275,"date":"2020-09-10T19:46:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T19:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/chelsea-bieker\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T22:25:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T22:25:02","slug":"chelsea-bieker","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/chelsea-bieker\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Bieker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chelsea Bieker<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of the debut novel\u00a0<em>Godshot<\/em><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>which was longlisted for The Center For Fiction\u2019s\u00a0First Novel Prize, and named a Barnes and Noble Pick of the Month. Her story collection,\u00a0<em>Heartbroke <\/em>won the\u00a0California Book Award\u00a0and was<em>\u00a0<\/em>a\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0\u201cBest California Book of 2022\u201d and an NPR Best Book of the Year<em>.\u00a0<\/em>Her writing has appeared in\u00a0<em>The Paris Review, Granta, The Cut, Wall Street Journal, McSweeney\u2019s<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Los Angeles Review of Books,<\/em>\u00a0and others. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers\u2019 Award, as well as residencies from MacDowell and Tin House Books. Originally from California\u2019s Central Valley, she lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two children.\u00a0Her newest novel,\u00a0<em>Madwoman<\/em><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>is forthcoming from Little, Brown.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1282\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Bieker_Heartbroke_heartbrokecover-Chelsea-Bieker-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2051\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/bieker-cover-godshot-A1GeXq0UXqL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/bieker-cover-godshot-A1GeXq0UXqL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/bieker-cover-godshot-A1GeXq0UXqL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_-575x861.jpg 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/bieker-cover-godshot-A1GeXq0UXqL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_-380x569.jpg 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/bieker-cover-godshot-A1GeXq0UXqL._AC_UF10001000_QL80_.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea Bieker\u00a0is the author of the debut novel\u00a0Godshot\u00a0which was longlisted for The Center For Fiction\u2019s\u00a0First Novel Prize, and named a Barnes and Noble Pick of the Month. Her story collection,\u00a0Heartbroke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1276,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_organizer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1275\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}