Michael Backus is the author of the novel The Vanishing Point (Cactus Moon Books), the memoir The Heart Is Meat (Oil On Water Press), and the chapbook Coney on the Moon (Redbird Chapbooks). His short stories and nonfiction have appeared in One Story, Okey Panky, Channel, Parhelion Literary Review, Jellyfish Review, Cleaver, Digging Through the Fat, Oyster River Pages, Prime Number, and Exquisite Corpse. He has taught at Columbia College and Marymount Manhattan College. He holds a BA from Purdue University and an MFA from Columbia College.
The Heart is Meat: An 80s Memoir