A Visit with Author, Michael Burke

Michael D. Burke is the author of a nonfiction collection, The Art of the Myth, and of a memoir/adventure, The Same River Twice (University of Arizona Press). His feature nonfiction and essays have appeared in Down East, Yankee, Islands, Outside, Boston Globe, The New York Times, Décor Maine, AMC Outdoors, The Sunday Times (South Africa), and other national publications. He is also a playwright, having won the 2018 Maine Literary Arts Award for “The Town Meets.” For more than 30 years he was a whitewater and wilderness river guide in Idaho, Alaska, Oregon, California, Arizona and Mexico. He is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and English at Colby College in Maine, where he served as the Director of Creative Writing.
Michael will be sharing his book of essays The Art of the Myth: Maine Essays.