{"id":3134,"date":"2023-09-29T12:14:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T19:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/?post_type=tribe_organizer&#038;p=3134"},"modified":"2023-09-29T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T19:14:41","slug":"dean-backus","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/dean-backus\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Backus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dean Backus<\/strong> is the solo author or co-author of over eleven plays, one of which <em>(Thus With A Kiss) <\/em>was runner-up for Best Play at the 1993 Seattle New Playwright\u2019s festival, and another of which won Best Play at the 1996 San Francisco Fringe Festival (<em>Is This Seat Taken?).\u00a0 <\/em>He appeared in Alyson\u2019s 1998 anthology <em>Wilma Loves Betty, <\/em>and was featured in the book <em>Gay Marriage Real Life<\/em> (2006) by Michelle Bates Deakin. His novel <em>Darts and Flowers<\/em> was published in 2022 by Torchflame Books. He resides outside of Portland, Oregon with his partner, Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3136\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Backus-Dean-DARTS-AND-FLOWERS-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Backus-Dean-DARTS-AND-FLOWERS-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Backus-Dean-DARTS-AND-FLOWERS-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Backus-Dean-DARTS-AND-FLOWERS-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Backus-Dean-DARTS-AND-FLOWERS-994x1536.jpg 994w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Backus-Dean-DARTS-AND-FLOWERS-1325x2048.jpg 1325w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Backus-Dean-DARTS-AND-FLOWERS-1140x1762.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Backus-Dean-DARTS-AND-FLOWERS-920x1422.jpg 920w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Backus-Dean-DARTS-AND-FLOWERS-575x889.jpg 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Backus-Dean-DARTS-AND-FLOWERS-380x587.jpg 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Backus-Dean-DARTS-AND-FLOWERS-800x1237.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Backus-Dean-DARTS-AND-FLOWERS.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Backus is the solo author or co-author of over eleven plays, one of which (Thus With A Kiss) was runner-up for Best Play at the 1993 Seattle New Playwright\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3135,"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\/3134"}],"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\/3134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/3134\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}