Michael D. Burke

Michael D. Burke’s publications include the memoir/adventure, The Same River Twice (University of Arizona Press) and feature nonfiction and essays in Down East, Yankee, Islands, Outside, Boston Globe, The New York Times, Maine Décor, 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, having made several first-descents by raft. He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of California at Berkeley and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and English at Colby College in Maine.