{"id":70,"name":"Molly Backes","url":"","description":"M. Molly Backes is the author of the young adult novel <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/12384972-the-princesses-of-iowa\">The Princesses of Iowa<\/a><\/em> (Candlewick Press, 2012). She writes the \u201cWriting Tips\u201d column for <em>The Prairie Wind<\/em> (the newsletter of the Illinois Chapter of SCBWI), and has performed her personal essays at reading series across Chicago including <em>Essay Fiesta<\/em>, <em>Funny Ha-Ha<\/em>, <em>Sunday Salon<\/em>, and <em>Is This a Thing?<\/em> She works as an editor by day and writer by night and spends her free time hanging out with her retired racing greyhound, Zia.","link":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/author\/mollybackes\/","slug":"mollybackes","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bfed5565e6a210b73b223ef7e61c9ac7?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bfed5565e6a210b73b223ef7e61c9ac7?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bfed5565e6a210b73b223ef7e61c9ac7?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityinkidlit.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}