{"id":1794,"date":"2023-09-11T20:23:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T20:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/?post_type=tribe_organizer&#038;p=1794"},"modified":"2023-09-11T20:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T20:23:28","slug":"brennan-defrisco","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/brennan-defrisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Brennan DeFrisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brennan DeFrisco<\/strong>\u00a0is a poet, teaching artist, editor, voice actor, &amp; arts coordinator from the San Francisco Bay Area. He\u2019s been a National Poetry Slam finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, Grand Slam Champion of the Oakland Poetry Slam, &amp; program coordinator for California Poets in the Schools, Poetry Out Loud, the Redwood Poetry Festival, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. He\u2019s the author of\u00a0<em>A Heart With No\u00a0<\/em>Scars, published by Nomadic Press and Black Lawrence Press,\u00a0<em>Honeysuckle &amp; Nightshade<\/em>, published by Swimming with Elephants Publications,\u00a0&amp; has served as poetry editor on the mastheads of\u00a0<em>Lunch Ticket<\/em> and the 2022 California Poets in the Schools State Anthology. Brennan facilitates creative writing and performance workshops, serving K-12 classrooms, incarcerated youth, adults, seniors, and various arts education programs. His work has been published in\u00a0<em>Red Wheelbarrow, Oracle Fine Arts Review, Drunk in a Midnight Choir<\/em>,<em>\u00a0Gemini<\/em> &amp; elsewhere. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1797\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_DeFrisco-Brennan-HONEYSUCKLE-NIGHTSHADE-200x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_DeFrisco-Brennan-HONEYSUCKLE-NIGHTSHADE-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_DeFrisco-Brennan-HONEYSUCKLE-NIGHTSHADE-380x570.webp 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_DeFrisco-Brennan-HONEYSUCKLE-NIGHTSHADE.webp 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brennan DeFrisco\u00a0is a poet, teaching artist, editor, voice actor, &amp; arts coordinator from the San Francisco Bay Area. He\u2019s been a National Poetry Slam finalist, a Pushcart Prize nominee, Grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1796,"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\/1794"}],"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\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1800,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1794\/revisions\/1800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}