Michael Backus is a writer and a graduate of Perdue University and Columbia College. He is the author of novels The Vanishing Point and Double, as well as the chapbook Coney on the Moon. He has taught at Columbia College and Marymount Manhattan College, and currently teaches the Gotham Writer’s Workshops. His short fiction and nonfiction have been published in One Story, Okey Panky, Cleaver, Portland Review, Sycamore Review, Digging Through the Fat, Oyster River Pages, Prime Number Magazine, The Writer Magazine, and Every Writer’s Resource.
Discipline:
Literature
Michael Backus
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Albuquerque, NM
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997
Studios
Cheney
Michael Backus worked in the Cheney studio.
Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…