I was born in Danbury, Connecticut in 1984. Then I moved to Washington, DC and studied philosophy. Then I taught high school there. Then I moved to Quito, Ecuador and taught high school again . Then I moved to New York City to study philosophy and education.
what is this place
stuff that comes out of david backerProjects
published fiction
- A Manual for Readers–Luna Park
- Approbation–Boundoff!
- At Recoleta–Weirdyear
- Because We're The Impressives–STORYCHORD
- Bob and Steve Coming Together–Sleep.Snort.Fuck
- Bob and Steve Coming Together–The Legendary
- Capitalism–Nanoism
- Come and be a part of it!–The Delinquent, Issue 10
- Disinter-Locust Magazine
- Eight Facestories–Swink
- Eight-Legged Freaks–Granta.com
- Extrude–Houston Literary Review
- In the Land of Tongues–Metazen
- Man Writing Story With Ears Plugged–Diet Soap
- Mollify–Metazen
- Paucity — Daily Love
- Proscribe — > kill author
- Puerility–Emprise Review
- Refractory–Curly Red Stories
- Solicitous–Zygote in My Coffee
- Something In the Ones and Zeros–Children Churches and Daddies
- Sometimes Always is Born–New Dead Families
- The Answer is Gail–Skyline Review, 2009
- The Jewelry Party–Metazen
- The Yolk–Metazen
- Tractable–Keyhole Digest 1
- Variegated–Johnny America
- What He Thinks–The Linnet's Wings
- Will #17–Caterwaul Quarterly
published non-fiction
- Annotated Archive of the Washington Circle–Ecogradients
- Broadcast or Narrowcast? –Luna Park
- Confessions of a Literary Aggregator–Full Stop
- Dear Online Literary Community (Response)–Luna Park
- El Terrible–Words Without Borders
- Long Live Fiction–The Millions
- Metazen as E-youth manifest – Zine-Scene
- On Democracy and Publishing–Zine Scene
- On Nanoism –Zine-Scene
- Oyacachi–Words Without Borders
- Pedestrian of Quito–Words Without Borders
- People Like People–Luna Park
- Poet in New York — > Language > Place
- Realism–Luna Park
- Review of "selected unpublished blog posts of a mexican panda express employee" by Megan Boyle — Full Stop
- Review of "The Story About My Coat" in Armchair/Shotgun #2 — Mdbell.com
- Review: "Chef" by Jaspreet Singh–Full Stop
- Review: "The Gospel of Anarchy" by Justin Taylor — Full Stop
- Review: "We're Getting On" by James Kaelen–Full Stop
- To Drill or not to Drill–n+1
- Whimsy–Luna Park
some other blog projects
Fiction Daily Twitter Feed
- @nytyrant agreed. what about 'picture'? picture fiction, picto-story; as in 'a picture is worth a thousand words'. flash is usually >1000 1 week ago
- @nytyrant interesting. who hates the term 'flash fiction'? why? 1 week ago
- aaand. Long fiction: "Alligator Language" by Jason Nemec at @TINGEMagazine, http://t.co/DIkQaskV 1 week ago
- yerp. Genre fiction: "Interlude Stories" by @Tynewriter at A Twist of Noir, http://t.co/IO83xWqU 1 week ago
- mmm. Short fiction: "My Child is Delirious..." by @everydayyeah at @Wigleaf , http://t.co/gXTReiQi 1 week ago
when i was interviewed

I just read your storychord#15 that a friend sent me to read. Some final show my theproper way to use hash mark in work. Thanks.
Thanks for teaching how to use hash marks properly