Ms. Burke is a graduate of Florida State University with a B.A. in English (1995) and additionally holds a M.F.A. in Business & Professional Writing from Savannah College of Art & Design (2012). In 2010, she was a featured student writer at the Decatur Book Festival, the largest book festival in the southeast, and has been a contributing and feature writer for student publications The Connector newspaper and SCAN magazine. She is also a member of the English Writer’s Association and the Society for Collegiate Journalists. Ms. Burke currently works from home as a freelance writer in Woodstock, GA, an Atlanta suburb. She has written content for websites and blogs and does contract work proofing and editing. In her free time she enjoys hiking, camping, crafting, and spending time her family and many pets.
Sample Titles
Many have heard of the Old Spanish Trail, but have misleading ideas of its use and course. Robert Hurst takes the reader on a 465 mile journey through the eyes of early Spaniards and others across the marshes, swamps, rivers, natural bridges, and highlands of Florida from St. Augustine to Pensacola.
Somewhere on the border between reality and fantasy lies the land of “What Ifs.” A little boy wakes from a busy dream to discover something has changed in his safe, familiar bedroom. A horn that looks exactly like the ones in the pattern of his bedspread is lying on the rug beside his bed. “What if,” he thinks, the cotton soldiers on his bedspread came alive and left it behind? A child’s fantasy. Or is it?