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Author BiographyGlenda Burgess is a winner of the Rupert Hughes Award for literary fiction, and a short story finalist for the New Century Writer Award. "Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self." Jean-Luc Godard (b.1930) French filmmaker and author. Novelist Glenda Burgess was born in New Mexico, daughter of a US Air Force Lt. Colonel in the Strategic Air Command. The author's first published work at the age of nine was printed in the Spokesman-Review newspaper for payment of one dollar. Glenda graduated with distinction from Indiana University, Bloomington, with a B.A. in Political Science, also earning a Certificate in Women Studies,and was the recipient of the 1978 Wendell L. Wilkie Distinguished Student Award. Earning a Masters in Public Affairs (1980) from the University of Washington, the author was selected to serve as a Presidential Management Fellow - a presitigious government executive training program initiated under President Jimmy Carter. After completing a decade of government service on Capitol Hill and for the U.S. State Department, in Washington DC and abroad, Ms. Burgess left government service to study creative writing, attending writers workshops and seminars at the University of Washington, the University of California (Berkeley),the Creative Writing Program in Continuing Education at Stanford, the Maui Writers School, and the Aspen Writers Workshop, to name a selected few. Glenda considers the theme of her work the complexities and mysteries of human passion echoed in art. NEW THE GEOGRAPHY OF LOVE, a memoir. Doubleday/ Works in Print Novels LOOSE THREADS, Second edition softcover, SPRING 2008, AuthorHouse; First edition, hardcover, Great American First Novel series, Malvern Publishing Ltd, UK, 1998. EXPOSURES, a novel, AuthorHouse, 2005. Academic A SPECIAL COLLECTIONS THESAURUS: Women Studies University of Washington, 1979, an academic reference. Works in progress PRINCIPLES OF FLIGHT, in final edit. A novel set in the art world of sculpture from the mountains of Taos to Argentina as Kit Miranda sets out to unravel both her broken heart and the decades old mystery of the heir to the Antonelli vineyards. RULES OF DUST, a work in draft. The tale of a widow, a painting, and a theft that threatens to everything Camille Bellelac thought to be true about her marriage, her husband, and her life. WANT TO KNOW MORE? ORDER BOOKS? Click on any tab or highlighted word for a direct link to that topic. |
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