Michael D. Burke’s publications include a nonfiction collection, The Art of the Myth (Alameda Press), and 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, Decor-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, having made several first-descents by raft. He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Colby College in Maine.  He has had residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, and in Italy at Studio Panicale and the Museum of Loss and Recovery.