Glenda Burgess

GLENDA BURGESS is a winner of the Rupert Hughes Award for literary fiction, and a short story finalist for the New Century Writer Award. Her memoir, The Geography of Love, was named one of The Ten Best Books of 2008 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and a finalist for the 2008 Books for a Better Life Award.

BIOGRAPHY
Born in New Mexico, the 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.

The author graduated with distinction from Indiana University, Bloomington, with a B.A. in Political Science. Ms. Burgess was the recipient of the 1978 Wendell L. Wilkie Distinguished Student Award in Political Science. 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 program initiated under President Jimmy Carter.

After completing nearly a decade of government service on Capitol Hill and for the U.S. State Department in Washington DC, Ms. Burgess left government service to study creative writing. She attended 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 Burgess' work encompasses a memoir, The Geography of Love, (Doubleday/​Broadway 2008), two novels, Loose Threads (Malvern Publishing 1998; second edition 2008) and Exposures (AuthorHouse 2005), and an academic work, A Special Collections Thesaurus (University of Washington 1979). Her work includes short stories as well as freelance articles and magazine essays. Glenda is a popular featured author at writing workshops and conferences, and has recently presented her work and lead workshops at the Hawaiian Writers Conference, The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Conference, Portland's Wordfest, The Writers Workshop Series at A Book for All Seasons, and Eastern Washington University's Get Lit! Writers Festival.


WORKS IN PRINT
The Geography of Love, a memoir.
Random House/​Broadway Books, August 2008
{softcover release August 2009}.

Loose Threads, a novel.
First edition, The Great American First Novel Series,
Malvern Publishing Ltd, UK, 1998.
Second edition, Penguin Books/​AuthorHouse, March 2008.

Exposures, a novel.
First edition, Penguin Books/​AuthorHouse, May 2005.

A Special Collections Thesaurus: Women Studies
Academic Reference.
University of Washington Press, 1979.