{"id":1857,"date":"2023-09-11T21:07:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T21:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/?post_type=tribe_organizer&#038;p=1857"},"modified":"2023-09-13T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T00:12:00","slug":"aiden-thomas","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/aiden-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Aiden Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tribe-events-pro-organizer__meta-content tribe-common-b1\">\n<p><strong>Aiden Thomas<\/strong>,\u00a0<em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>bestselling author of\u00a0<em>The Sunbearer Trials,<\/em> <em>Cemetery Boys,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Lost in the Never Woods<\/em>, received their MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Born in Oakland, California, Aiden currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where they get most of their inspiration from the lush wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. Aiden is notorious among their friends for always being surprised by twist endings to books\/movies and organizing their bookshelves by color. When not writing, Aiden enjoys exploring the outdoors with their dog, Ronan. Their cat, Figaro, prefers to support their indoor hobbies, like reading and drinking too much coffee.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2184\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thomas-cover-FINALSunbearerTrials_9781250822130_CVR1-194x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thomas-cover-FINALSunbearerTrials_9781250822130_CVR1-194x300.jpeg 194w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thomas-cover-FINALSunbearerTrials_9781250822130_CVR1-661x1024.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thomas-cover-FINALSunbearerTrials_9781250822130_CVR1-768x1189.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thomas-cover-FINALSunbearerTrials_9781250822130_CVR1-992x1536.jpeg 992w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thomas-cover-FINALSunbearerTrials_9781250822130_CVR1-1323x2048.jpeg 1323w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thomas-cover-FINALSunbearerTrials_9781250822130_CVR1-1140x1765.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thomas-cover-FINALSunbearerTrials_9781250822130_CVR1-920x1424.jpeg 920w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thomas-cover-FINALSunbearerTrials_9781250822130_CVR1-575x890.jpeg 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thomas-cover-FINALSunbearerTrials_9781250822130_CVR1-380x588.jpeg 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thomas-cover-FINALSunbearerTrials_9781250822130_CVR1-800x1239.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/thomas-cover-FINALSunbearerTrials_9781250822130_CVR1-scaled.jpeg 1653w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aiden Thomas,\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestselling author of\u00a0The Sunbearer Trials, Cemetery Boys,\u00a0and\u00a0Lost in the Never Woods, received their MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Born in Oakland, California, Aiden currently resides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1858,"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\/1857"}],"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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1857\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}